Hyphenation of descent

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word descent? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

de-scent

Definitions of descent:

1.	A movement downward
2.	Properties attributable to your ancestry He comes from good origins
3.	The act of changing your location in a downward direction
4.	The kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
5.	A downward slope or bend
6.	The descendants of one individual His entire lineage has been warriors

Synonyms of descent:

noun	change of location, travel
noun	origin, extraction, ancestry, lineage, derivation, filiation
noun	motion, movement, move
noun	line of descent, lineage, filiation, kinship, family relationship, relationship
noun	declivity, fall, decline, declination, declension, downslope, slope, incline, side
noun	lineage, line, line of descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock, genealogy, family tree

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.