descente

French

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

Derived terms

à la descente
descente de croix

descente de lit
descente de matrice

Related terms

descendre

Further reading

“descente” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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