Associations to the word «Declension»

Wiktionary

DECLENSION, noun. (grammar) The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order.
DECLENSION, noun. (grammar) A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive.

Dictionary definition

DECLENSION, noun. The inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages.
DECLENSION, noun. Process of changing to an inferior state.
DECLENSION, noun. A downward slope or bend.
DECLENSION, 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".

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin