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Declension
//dɪˈklɛn.ʃən// noun
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Noun
- 1 A falling off, decay or descent. countable, uncountable
"Refinement of feeling, intellectual tastes, and a noble hospitality, were among the features of his character; and hoary years brought no mental declension, and drew no shade over the ardent affections by which he was distinguished, and in whose reciprocity, was his undeclining solace."
- 2 a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms wordnet
- 3 The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order. countable, uncountable
- 4 a downward slope or bend wordnet
- 5 The product of that act; a list of declined forms. countable, uncountable
"a page full of declensions"
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- 6 process of changing to an inferior state wordnet
- 7 A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive. countable, uncountable
"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."
- 8 the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages wordnet
Etymology
From late Middle English declinson, from Middle French declinaison (Modern French: déclinaison), from Latin dēclīnātiō. Doublet of declination.
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