Declension

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. In certain languages, the inflection of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives with respect to categories such as case, number, and gender.
  • noun. A class of words of one language with the same or a similar system of inflections, such as the first declension in Latin.
  • noun. A descending slope; a descent.
  • noun. A decline or decrease; deterioration.
  • noun. A deviation, as from a standard or practice.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A sloping downward; a declination; a descent; a slope; a declivity.
  • noun. A sinking or falling into a lower or inferior state; deterioration; decline.
  • noun. Refusal; non-acceptance.
  • noun. In grammar: The inflection of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives; strictly, the deviation of other forms of such a word from that of its nominative case; in general, the formation of the various cases from the stem, or from the nominative singular as representing it: thus, in English, man, man's, men, men's; in Latin, rex, regis, regi, regem, rege, in the singular, and reges, regum, regibus, in the plural.
  • noun. The rehearsing of a word as declined; the act of declining a word, as a noun.
  • noun. A class of nouns declined on the same type: as, first or second declension; the five Latin declensions. Abbreviated decl.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.
  • noun. A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay
  • noun. Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases.
  • noun. The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases
  • noun. Rehearsing a word as declined.
  • noun. declination of the needle.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. : A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive.
  • noun. : The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms
  • noun. the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages
  • noun. process of changing to an inferior state
  • noun. a downward slope or bend
  • Word Usage
    "On the other hand the action of the state-religion upon the state, the condition of Al-Islam during the reign of Al – Rashid, its declension from the primitive creed and its relation to Christianity and Christendom, require a somewhat extended notice."
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