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Definition: Ascendance |
AscendanceNoun1. The state that exists when one person or group has power over another; "her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ascendance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references) |
Synonyms: AscendanceSynonyms: ascendancy (n), ascendence (n), ascendency (n), control (n), dominance (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Ascendance |
| Non-English Usage: "Ascendance" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (ancestry, pedigree). |
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Economic History | Japan | The ascendance of more efficient retailers is also helping to reduce the layers in the distribution system and make imported goods more price competitive. (references) |
Argentina | Using fraud and force when necessary, the governments of the 1930s attempted to contain the currents of economic and political change that eventually led to the ascendance of Juan Domingo Peron (b. 1897). New social and political forces were seeking political power, including a modern military and labor movements that emerged from the growing urban working class. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Ascendance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ascendance" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Beginning with "ascendance": ascendance-y. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ascendance leroy | 7 |
ascendance | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ascendance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ascendens (ascendancy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ascendent (ascendancy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ascendance (ascendancy, ascent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Aszendenz (ascendancy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ανιούσα (ascendancy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ascendenza (ancestry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ascendanceay ascendência (ascendence, domination, down, parentage, pedigree, power, provenance). (various references) доминирующая роль (ascendancy, ascendency). (various references) ascendencia (ancestry, ascendancy, line of ascent, origin). (various references) влада (arm, ascendancy, ascendant, attribution, authority, cathedra, command, domination, faculty, grip, gripe, hold, in, lordship, reign, rod), панування (ascendancy, dominance, domination, grasp, mastery, predominance, predominancy, supremacy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "ascendance": ascendances. (additional references) | |
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"Ascendance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acendance, ascendence. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ascendance" (pronounced use"nduns) |
| 7 | -s e" n d u n s | transcendence. |
| 6 | -e" n d u n s | attendance, dependence, independence, interdependence. |
| 5 | -n d u n s | abundance, correspondence, overabundance, overdependence. |
| 4 | -d u n s | accordance, avoidance, cadence, coincidence, confidence, credence, decadence, dissidence, evidence, guidance, impedance, imprudence, incidence, jurisprudence, overconfidence, precedence, Providence, prudence, residence, riddance, subsidence. |
| 3 | -u n s | abeyance, abhorrence, absence, abstinence, acceptance, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, assistance, assurance, audience, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, dalliance, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, importance, impotence, inadvertence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, province, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-d-e-e-n-n-s" | |
-2 letters: cadences, nascence. | |
-3 letters: accedes, cadence, cancans, cascade, decanes, encased, enneads, saccade, scanned. | |
-4 letters: accede, ascend, cancan, cannas, canned, ceased, censed, dances, decane, encase, ennead, nances, seance, seneca. | |
-5 letters: acned, acnes, aedes, annas, ansae, cacas, cades, caeca, caned, canes, canna, cased, cease, cedes, cense, daces, dance, deans, denes, dense, eased, naans, nadas, nanas, nance, needs. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-d-e-e-n-n-s" | |
+1 letter: ascendances. | |
+2 letters: ascendancies. | |
+4 letters: accidentalness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 73 63 65 6E 64 61 6E 63 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- ... -.-. . -. -.. .- -. -.-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01110011 01100011 01100101 01101110 01100100 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A s c e n d a n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0073 0063 0065 006E 0064 0061 006E 0063 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35856971807067806971 |
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