declension
Other forms: declensions
A declension is a decline, like a downward slope or something that gets worse. As a grammar word, declension is the way a word's ending changes to reflect its function in a sentence.
A hill's steep declension makes it easy to roll down, and if you think there’s a declension in quality of movies these days, you might just skip the theater. In another sense, if you've learned German or Greek, you're familiar with declension, as when a noun changes its form slightly to show that it's the object of a sentence. In English, we use prepositions and word order instead. The Latin root means "to lower or bend from."
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the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languagestype of:inflection, inflexiona change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function
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a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms
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a downward slope or bend
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the process of changing to an inferior statesynonyms: decline in quality, deterioration, worsening
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