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# declivity

«declivity» in Mova's school dictionary: **a slope going down, a downward slant of the ground, such…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (plural declivities)

### meaning for a pupil

A declivity is a slope going down, a downward slant of the ground, such as a hill or a bank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/declivity/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in the tales, heroes come to the edge of a declivity and see a lake below

### examples

- They climbed down the steep declivity to the lake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/declivity/#x1)
- The road ran along the declivity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/declivity/#x2)
- The sheep ran down the declivity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/declivity/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «declivity» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/declivity/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.