ascendência — meaning in English
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English meaning
- ancestry noun The line of ancestors a person descends from; one's family origins or heritage.
- ascendancy noun A position of dominant power or control over others.
- descent noun The act of coming down from a higher place, or a downward slope or path.
Senses
ascendência is used for these senses in English:
- ancestry Birth to a noble or high-ranking family, or to someone of honorable descent.
- ascendancy The quality of being in the ascendant; dominant control, supremacy.
- descent Lineage or hereditary derivation.
ascendancy — full definition
- noun A position of dominant power or control over others.
- 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 measure of an ecosystem's ability to withstand disturbance, based on the size and structure of its network of feeding relationships.
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