ascendencia — 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 The quality of being in the ascendant; dominant control, supremacy.
- descent noun The act of coming down from a higher place, or a downward slope or path.
Senses
ascendencia is used for these senses in English:
- ancestry Birth to a noble or high-ranking family, or to someone of honorable descent.
- ancestry A series of ancestors; the people from whom one is descended.
- ascendancy The quality of being in the ascendant; dominant control, supremacy.
- descent Lineage or hereditary derivation.
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.