Antonym: descendant. Similar words: ascendancy, descendant, descendants, ascend, ascending, pendant, intendant, attendant. Meaning: [-dənt] 
n. 1. position or state of being dominant or in control 2. someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent). adj. 1. tending or directed upward 2. most powerful or important or influential.
n. 1. position or state of being dominant or in control 2. someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent). adj. 1. tending or directed upward 2. most powerful or important or influential. 
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61. Resorted its ascendant characteristic, it can take place of the traditional electromagnetic instrument transformer.
62. Why are Geography, Drama, Art and English in the ascendant?
63. An ascendant economic power pushes the world to use its currency rather than the main international coinage, eventually upending decades of monetary world order.
64. All that is happening is that 'we are entering an era of competing modernity' in which China will 'increasingly be in the ascendant and eventually dominant'.
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