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declension

About 0.27 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A falling off, decay or descent.
  2. noun The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order.
  3. noun The product of that act; a list of declined forms.
    a page full of declensions
  4. noun A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive.
    In Latin, 'amicus' belongs to the second declension. Most second-declension nouns end in '-i' in the genitive singular and '-um' in the accusative singular.

Similar words

declination descent descension degression downfalling declinature decline drop dehancement downfall

Often followed by

of in and from is nouns or to was

Word family

declensional declensions

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