ascendant — meaning in English
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English meaning
- antecedent noun In grammar, the word or phrase that a pronoun refers back to.
- ascendancy noun The quality of being in the ascendant; dominant control, supremacy.
- ascendant adj Rising in power, influence, or status; dominant.
- ascending adj Increasing step by step; rising in order from lowest to highest.
Senses
ascendant is used for these senses in English:
- antecedent An ancestor.
- ascendancy The quality of being in the ascendant; dominant control, supremacy.
- ascending (computing) That causes a sequence to follow an ascending order.
antecedent — full definition
- noun In grammar, the word or phrase that a pronoun refers back to.
- noun A thing or event that came before something else and helped lead to it.
- adjective Coming before something in time or order.
ascendancy — full definition
- noun The quality of being in the ascendant; dominant control, supremacy.
- noun Ellipsis of Protestant Ascendancy, a class of Protestant landowners and professionals that dominated political and social life in Ireland up to the early 20th century.
- noun A quantitative attribute of an ecosystem, defined as a function of the ecosystem's trophic network, and intended to indicate its ability to prevail against disturbance by virtue of its combined organization and size.