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PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: ascendant

1	adj	tending or directed upward
2	adj n	most powerful or important or influential position or state of being dominant or in control
3	n	someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: ascendant

adj tending or directed upward

“"rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage"- John Ruskin”

Synonyms:: ascendent, ascensive

: ascending
moving or going or growing upward

adj most powerful or important or influential

“the economically ascendant class”

Synonyms:: ascendent, dominating

: dominant
exercising influence or control

n position or state of being dominant or in control

“that idea was in the ascendant”

Synonyms:: ascendent

Type of:: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, control, dominance
the state that exists when one person or group has power over another

n someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

Synonyms:: ancestor, antecedent, ascendent, root

Antonyms:: descendant, descendent
a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race

Examples:: show 12 examples...; hide 12 examples...; Abraham
the first of the Old Testament patriarchs and the father of Isaac; according to Genesis, God promised to give Abraham's family (the Hebrews) the land of Canaan (the Promised Land); God tested Abraham by asking him to sacrifice his son; Benjamin
(Old Testament) the youngest and best-loved son of Jacob and Rachel and one of the twelve forebears of the tribes of Israel; Isaac
(Old Testament) the second patriarch; son of Abraham and Sarah who was offered by Abraham as a sacrifice to God; father of Jacob and Esau; Ishmael
(Old Testament) the son of Abraham who was cast out after the birth of Isaac; considered the forebear of 12 Arabian tribes; Issachar
(Old Testament) a son of Jacob and a forebear of one of the tribes of Israel; Joseph
(Old Testament) the 11th son of Jacob and one of the 12 patriarchs of Israel; Jacob gave Joseph a coat of many colors, which made his brothers jealous and they sold him into slavery in Egypt; Judah
(Old Testament) the fourth son of Jacob who was forebear of one of the tribes of Israel; one of his descendants was to be the Messiah; Methuselah
(Old Testament) a patriarch (grandfather of Noah) who is said to have lived 969 years; Noah
the Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain; the story of Noah and the flood is told in the Book of Genesis; Reuben
(Old Testment) a son of Jacob and forefather of one of the tribes of Israel; Blessed Virgin
the mother of Jesus; Christians refer to her as the Virgin Mary; she is especially honored by Roman Catholics; Naomi
the mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament

Types:: show 9 types...; hide 9 types...; ancestress
a woman ancestor; forbear, forebear
a person from whom you are descended; father, forefather, sire
the founder of a family; foremother
a woman ancestor; primogenitor, progenitor
an ancestor in the direct line; genitor
a natural father or mother; grandparent
a parent of your father or mother; great grandparent
a parent of your grandparent; patriarch
any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race

Type of:: relation, relative
a person related by blood or marriage

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