pronounce descent
/dÉªËsent/. How to pronounce descent in British English. (English pronunciations of descent from the Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary & Thesaurus and from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary, both sources Â© Cambridge University Press).he answer may seem obvious, but the use of this word can lead to confusion. In the UK and Ireland the word traditionally meant the number 1,000,000,000,000 (a million millions), which is called a trillion in the United States. A billion in the United States is considerably.