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Home » Advanced » Descent
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Descent

by rob2018|Published August 21, 2022

DEF: 1. Origin, ancestry of a person. 2. Going down.

EX: 1. President Obama is of Kenyan descent 2. There are close to 2 million people of Vietnamese descent in the US.

Synonyms:
ancestry

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