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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024as•cend•ant or as•cend•ent/əˈsɛndənt/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Astrologya position of dominance.
adj. [before a noun] - rising:an ascendant middle class.
- superior;
dominant.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024as•cend•ant (ə sen′dənt),USA pronunciation n. - a position of dominance or controlling influence: possession of power, superiority, or preeminence:With his rivals in the ascendant, he soon lost his position.
- an ancestor;
forebear. - Astrologythe point of the ecliptic or the sign and degree of the zodiac rising above the eastern horizon at the time of a birth or event: the cusp of the first house.
adj. - ascending;
rising. - superior;
predominant. - [Bot.]directed or curved upward.
Also, as•cend′ent. - Latin ascendent- (stem of ascendēns) climbing up. See ascend, -ent, -ant
- Middle English ascendent 1350–1400
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: ascendant, ascendent /əˈsɛndənt/ adj - proceeding upwards; rising
- dominant, superior, or influential
n - a position or condition of dominance, superiority or control
- (sometimes capital) a point on the ecliptic that rises on the eastern horizon at a particular moment and changes as the earth rotates on its axis
- the sign of the zodiac containing this point
- in the ascendant ⇒ increasing in influence, prosperity, etc
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