Declension

[dɪ'klenʃ(ə)n] or [dɪ'klɛnʃən]

解释:

(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'.

(noun.) the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages.

整理:斯特拉--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.

(n.) A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc.

(n.) Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination.

(n.) Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases.

(n.) The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc.

(n.) Rehearsing a word as declined.

整理:劳埃德

同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Decline, deterioration, degeneracy, decay, diminution, falling off.[2]. (Gram.) Inflection, variation.

录入:朱莉

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Decay, decadence, degeneration, deterioration, fall

ANT:Bise, improvement, advancement, culmination

奥罗拉编辑

解释:

n. a falling off: decay: descent: (gram.) change of termination for the oblique cases.

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