descender

A noun with multiple meanings: a person who descends; a lowercase letter with a part extending below the baseline; or in printing, the part of a lowercase letter that extends below other lowercase letters.

• 🇩🇪Substantiv mit mehreren Bedeutungen: eine Person, die heruntersteigt oder absteigt; in der Typografie ein Kleinbuchstabe mit einem Element, das unter die Grundlinie reicht.

1. Someone who descends B2 formal

   A person who moves downward or comes down from a higher place.

   • The descender carefully climbed down the mountain.
   • Each descender on the staircase moved with caution.
   • The group of descenders reached the valley safely.

   🇩🇪Herabsteigender

   Antonyme: ascenderclimber

2. Typography: letter part C1 formal

   In typography, the part of a lowercase letter that extends below the baseline, such as in 'g', 'j', 'p', 'q', 'y'.

   • The letter 'g' has a prominent descender.
   • Fonts with long descenders can look elegant.
   • The descender of the 'y' almost touched the next line.

   🇩🇪Unterlänge

   Antonyme: ascender

3. Typography: letter type C1 formal

   A lowercase letter that has a part extending below the baseline.

   • The letters 'p' and 'q' are descenders.
   • In this font, the descenders are quite short.
   • The designer adjusted the length of the descenders for readability.

   🇩🇪Unterlänge

   Antonyme: ascender

• descenders plural form
• descenders' possessive plural form
• descender's possessive singular form