descente
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French descente, from descendre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de.sɑ̃t/
Audio: (file)
Noun
descente f (plural descentes)
- descent (act of going down)
- descent (downward slope)
- way down
- descending
- raid (e.g. police raid)
- (sports) downhill (an event in skiing or canoeing)
- comedown (from a drug), crash
Derived terms
- à la descente
- avoir une bonne descente
- descente aux enfers
- descente de croix
- descente de lit
- descente de matrice
- patinage de descente
- patinage de descente extrême
Related terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “descente”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.