Dictionary  de•clen•sionPronunciation: (di-klen'shun), [key] —n. 1. Gram. a. the inflection of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives for categories such as case and number. b. the whole set of inflected forms of such a word, or the recital thereof in a fixed order. c. a class of such words having similar sets of inflected forms: the Latin second declension. 2. an act or instance of declining. 3. a bending, sloping, or moving downward: land with a gentle declension toward the sea. 4. deterioration; decline. 5. deviation, as from a standard. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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