1. Noun
The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.
2. Noun
A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc.
3. Noun
Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination.
4. Noun
Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases.
5. Noun
The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc.
6. Noun
Rehearsing a word as declined.
7. Noun
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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8. Noun
a downward slope or bend
Vocabulary classified under Nature and environment
9. Noun
the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages
Vocabulary classified under Linguistics
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