DECLENSION
\dɪklˈɛnʃən], \dɪklˈɛnʃən], \d_ɪ_k_l_ˈɛ_n_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of DECLENSION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms; "the first declension in Latin"
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a downward slope or bend
By Princeton University
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a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms; "the first declension in Latin"
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a downward slope or bend
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.
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A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc.
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Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination.
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Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases.
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The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc.
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Rehearsing a word as declined.
By Oddity Software
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The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.
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A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc.
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Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination.
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Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases.
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The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc.
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Rehearsing a word as declined.
By Noah Webster.
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A sloping down; a falling off or away; in grammar, the inflection of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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The inflection, as of nouns by cases.
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The act of declining.
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A slope; incline; decline; deterioration.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. Declination; descent; slope;—a falling off from excellence or perfection; deterioration; decay;—act of refusing or declining; a declinature;—inflection of a word according to grammatical forms.
