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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

  1. noun The quality of being in the ascendant; dominant control, supremacy.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.

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