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How to pronounce “ascendant”
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Pronunciation guide for ascendant
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of ascendant with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Jimmy Carter: Why I believe the mistreatment of women is the number one human rights abuse 16 minutes
and these have been misinterpreted by men who are now in the ascendant positions
- Definition summary
- Moving upward; ascending, rising.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce ascendant
Jimmy Carter: Why I believe the mistreatment of women is the number one human rights abuse 16 minutes
and these have been misinterpreted by men who are now in the ascendant positions
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “ascendant”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Moving upward; ascending, rising.
- (figurative) Controlling, dominant, surpassing.
- (astrology) In an eastern direction rising just above the horizon.
- (astronomy) Rising towards the zenith.
- (botany, physiology) Of a part of an organism: synonym of ascending (“leading or sloping upwards”).
- (genealogy, archaic or obsolete) Synonym of ascending (“of or pertaining to one's ancestors”).
- [Noun]
- (astrology, also figurative) The degree of the zodiac or point of the ecliptic which rises in an eastern direction above the horizon at a particular moment (especially the moment of a person's birth), which is supposed to have a commanding influence on a person's fortune and life; a horoscope.
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