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Definition: Ascendancy |
AscendancyNoun1. 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 "ascendancy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references) |
Synonyms: AscendancySynonyms: ascendance (n), ascendence (n), ascendency (n), control (n), dominance (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Success | Surmount a difficulty, overcome a difficulty, get over a difficulty, get over an obstacle; se tirer d'affaire; make head against; stem the torrent, stem the tide, stem the current; weather the storm, weather a point; turn a corner, keep one's head above water, tide over; master; get the better of, have the better of, gain the better of, gain the best of, gain the upper hand, gain the ascendancy, gain the whip hand, gain the start of; distance; surpass; (superiority). |
Advantage over; upper hand, whip hand; ascendancy, mastery; expugnation, conquest, victory, subdual; subjugation; (subjection). | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Ascendancy |
| English words defined with "ascendancy": authoritative ♦ important ♦ overcomer ♦ subduer, surmounter. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Ascendancy" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Serbo-Croatian (ascendency). |
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Karl Marx | When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Pakistan | New elections, held in October of 1990, confirmed the political ascendancy of the IJI. (references) |
Tanzania | They built a series of highly developed city and trading states along the coast, the principal one being Kibaha, a settlement of Persian origin that held ascendancy until the Portuguese destroyed it in the early 1500s. (references) | |
Political Economy | Panama | The party leadership is currently somewhat in flux as factions backing Martin Torrijos (son of the party's founder) and Juan Carlos Navarro (Mayor of Panama City) compete for ascendancy. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | In the four western counties of Pennsylvania a prejudice, fostered and embittered by the artifice of men who labored for an ascendancy over the will of others by the guidance of their passions, produced symptoms of riot and violence. |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | Should the present season not admit of complete success, the progress made will insure for the next a naval ascendancy where it is essential to our permanent peace with and control over the savages. |
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| "Ascendancy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ascendancy" is used about 192 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% | 192 | 22,147 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "ascendancy": ascendancy-class. | |
Ending with "ascendancy": pre-ascendancy. | |
| 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 |
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| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ascendancy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pushtet (arm, ascendency, attribution, Caesar, clout, clutches, jurisdiction, nomocracy, power, reign), epërsi (advantage, ascendency, distinction, edge, excellence, excellency, pre eminence, predominance, preponderance, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, vantage, weight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | هيمنة (dominance, domination, overriding, predominance, predomination, sway, uppercut), حكم (administer, administration, arbiter, arbitration, authority, award, control, decide, decision, deliverance, determination, dispensation, doom, fasten, fastening, find, finding, govern, hand down, judge, judgement, judgment, opinion, reckon, referee, regimen, rule, ruling, run, sway, umpire, verdict), سطوة (ascendency, sway). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | господство (command, dominance, domination, empire, hegemony, lordship, mastership, mastery, rule, supremacy), надмощие (ascendant, dominance, grasp, hegemony, mastery, overweight, predominance, supremacy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | převaha (balance, dominance, overbalance, overweight, predominance, preponderance, superiority), nadvláda (domination, dominion, predominance, supremacy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ascendens (ascendance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ascendent (ascendance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ascendant (ascendant, ascending). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Aszendenz (ascendance), vormachtstellung (predominance, supremacy), Einfluss (force, hold, impingement, importance, inflow, influence, influx, leverage, sway). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υπεροχή (dominance, eminence, excellence, forte, odds, overbalance, pre eminence, predominance, predominancy, predomination, preeminence, preponderance, prevailingness, primacy, superbness, superiority, supremacy, supremeness, transcendence, transcendency, virtue), ανιούσα (ascendance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שליט" (authority, command, control, disposal, disposition, dominance, domination, dominion, mastery, predominance, predomination, proficiency, take over). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hatalom (authority, empire, force, hank, hold, lever, leverage, lordship, mastership, mastery, might, potency, power, sway), befolyás (drag, hank, hold, impact, inflow, influence, leading, lever, leverage, potency, suck, sway). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pengaruh (effect, influence, interact). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ascendenza (ancestry), ascendente (ancestor, ascendant, ascendency, ascending, ascensions, assurgent, hold, influence, rising, soaring, up, upgrade, upward), predominio (hands over, predominance), influenza (control, flu, grippe, hold, influence, influenza, leverage, pull). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 優位 (predominance, superiority), 制圧 (control, gaining total control, mastery, oppression, suppression, supremacy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | せいあつ (control, gaining total control, mastery, oppression, suppression, supremacy), ゆうい (able, capable, magnificent, predominance, promising, significance, superiority, talented). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | eaghtyrys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ascendancyay ascendência (ascendence, domination, down, parentage, pedigree, power, provenance). (various references) ascendent (ancestor, ascending, climbing, upward), influenţã (action, authority, carry over, credit, effect, force, hold, impact, influence, influenza, leaven, potency, push, reaction, weight). (various references) власть (ascendency, attribution, authority, clutch, control, domination, governance, grip, gripe, hand, helm, hold, mastery, power, sway), могущественное влияние. (various references) nadmoć (domination, mastery, preponderance, superiority), dominacija (dominance, domination). (various references) ascendiente (ancestor, ascendant, influence), ascendencia (ancestry, line of ascent, origin). (various references) makt (ability, agency, authority, command, control, dominion, force, governance, in, lordship, might, potency, power, tooth), dominans (dominance), övertag (advantage, edge). (various references) itibar (altitude, ascendency, authority, consideration, credit, dignity, effectiveness, eminence, eminency, esteem, estimation, face, importance, odor, odour, prestige, regard, reputation, respectability, standing, weight), hüküm sürme (ascendency, suzerainty), egemenlik (ascendency, dominance, domination, hegemony, imperium, mastery, Raj, reign, rule, sovereignty, supremacy, sway), üstünlük (advantage, altitude, ascendency, beat, championship, class, distinction, dominance, edge, eligibility, excellence, head start, hegemony, lordship, mastery, odds, overweight, pre eminence, precedence, predominance, preponderance, primacy, spirit, supereminence, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, virtue, whip hand). (various references) влада (arm, ascendance, ascendant, attribution, authority, cathedra, command, domination, faculty, grip, gripe, hold, in, lordship, reign, rod), панування (ascendance, dominance, domination, grasp, mastery, predominance, predominancy, supremacy). (various references) uy thế (ascendant, ascendency, ascendent), uy lực (ascendency). (various references) uchafiaeth (supremacy), goruchafiaeth (supremacy, triumph). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Avestan | 200-600 | uparatâtem. (various references) |
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"Ascendancy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adcendancy, ascendanry. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ascendancy" (pronounced use"ndunsē) |
| 9 | u s e" n d u n s ē | ascendency. |
| 7 | -e" n d u n s ē | dependency, tendency. |
| 6 | -n d u n s ē | despondency, redundancy. |
| 5 | -d u n s ē | presidency, residency, stridency. |
| 4 | -u n s ē | absorbency, accountancy, agency, buoyancy, clemency, cogency, competency, complacency, Conservancy, consistency, constancy, constituency, consultancy, contingency, counterinsurgency, currency, decency, deficiency, delinquency, discrepancy, dormancy, efficiency, emergency, equivalency, excellency, exigency, expectancy, expediency, fluency, frequency, hesitancy, immunodeficiency, incompetency, inconsistency, inconstancy, incumbency, indecency, inefficiency, infancy, infrequency, insolvency, insurgency, interagency, irrelevancy, latency, leniency, malignancy, militancy, nonemergency, occupancy, poignancy, potency, pregnancy, proficiency, regency, relevancy, resiliency, solvency, stringency, sufficiency, tenancy, transparency, truancy, urgency, vacancy, vagrancy, vibrancy. |
| 3 | -n s ē | bouncy, chancy, deviancy, fancy, fiancee, mincy, Nancy, necromancy, teensy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-d-e-n-n-s-y" | |
-2 letters: nascency. | |
-3 letters: cadency, cancans, cascade, saccade, scanned. | |
-4 letters: ascend, cancan, cannas, canned, cycads, dances, decays, nances, nancys, synced. | |
-5 letters: acned, acnes, annas, ansae, cacas, cades, caeca, candy, caned, canes, canna, canny, cased, cyans, cycad, cycas, daces, dance, deans, decay, dynes, naans, nadas, nanas, nance, nancy, sandy, saned, scena, scend, sedan, senna, yeans. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 73 63 65 6E 64 61 6E 63 79 |
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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 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A s c e n d a n c y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0073 0063 0065 006E 0064 0061 006E 0063 0079 |
| 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)35856971807067806991 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Quotations: Speeches 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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