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You have to talk about why things happened the way they did. You can't actually explain my political life except by a series of situations rather than by some carefully constructed, rigidly progressed ascendancy.
David Lange

Meaning of "ascendancy" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ASCENDANCY

ascendancy  [əˈsɛndənsɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ASCENDANCY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ascendancy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ASCENDANCY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Ascendancy

The Protestant Ascendancy, usually known simply as the Ascendancy, was a class of Protestant landowners and professionals that dominated political and social life in Ireland up to the early 20th century. Ascendancy may also refer to: ▪ Ascendancy, a 2005 album by American heavy metal band Trivium. ▪ AscendancyAscendancy ▪ Ascendency, sometimes spelled "ascendancy", a quantitative attribute of an ecosystem.

Definition of ascendancy in the English dictionary

The definition of ascendancy in the dictionary is the condition of being dominant, esp through superior economic or political power.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ASCENDANCY


abundancy
əˈbʌndənsɪ
ascendency
əˈsɛndənsɪ
attendancy
əˈtɛndənsɪ
co-dependency
ˌkəʊdɪˈpɛndənsɪ
correspondency
ˌkɒrɪˈspɒndənsɪ
countertendency
ˈkaʊntəˌtendənsɪ
dependancy
dɪˈpɛndənsɪ
dependency
dɪˈpɛndənsɪ
despondency
dɪˈspɒndənsɪ
impendency
ɪmˈpendənsɪ
independency
ˌɪndɪˈpɛndənsɪ
intendancy
ɪnˈtɛndənsɪ
interdependency
ˌɪntədɪˈpɛndənsɪ
pendency
ˈpɛndənsɪ
redundancy
rɪˈdʌndənsɪ
resplendency
rɪˈsplɛndənsɪ
respondency
rɪˈspɒndənsɪ
superintendency
ˌsuːpərɪnˈtɛndənsɪ
tendency
ˈtɛndənsɪ
transcendency
trænˈsɛndənsɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ASCENDANCY

ascend
ascend the throne
ascendable
ascendance
ascendant
ascendantly
ascendence
ascendency
ascendent
ascender
ascendeur
ascendible
ascending
ascending scale
ascension
Ascension Day
Ascension Island
ascensional
ascensionist

WORDS THAT END LIKE ASCENDANCY

accordancy
accountancy
Clancy
conservancy
consultancy
discordancy
discrepancy
expectancy
fancy
infancy
life expectancy
mordancy
nancy
occupancy
pregnancy
relevancy
tenancy
vacancy
verdancy
voluntary redundancy

Synonyms and antonyms of ascendancy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ASCENDANCY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «ascendancy» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of ascendancy

Translation of «ascendancy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ASCENDANCY

Find out the translation of ascendancy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of ascendancy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ascendancy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

崛起
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ascendiente
570 millions of speakers

English

ascendancy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

प्रभुत्व
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

صعود
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

господство
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ascendência
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কর্তৃত্ব
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ascendant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ketangkasan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Vormachtstellung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

優勢
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

우세
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dhuwit
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thế lực
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஆதிக்கத்தை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वर्चस्व
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

üstünlük
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ascendente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przewaga
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

панування
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ascendent
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υπεροχή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

opkoms
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ascendancy
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ascendancy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ascendancy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ASCENDANCY»

The term «ascendancy» is regularly used and occupies the 68.221 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ASCENDANCY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ascendancy

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6 QUOTES WITH «ASCENDANCY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word ascendancy.
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Bernhard von Bulow
But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy.
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John Nelson Darby
During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.
3
Nick Lampson
Moreover, as we live in an era of the ascendancy of democracy and human rights, we must see that Taiwan has been a vibrant democracy with a democratically elected president and legislature.
4
David Lange
You have to talk about why things happened the way they did. You can't actually explain my political life except by a series of situations rather than by some carefully constructed, rigidly progressed ascendancy.
5
Sherwin B. Nuland
The Scientific Revolution, that remarkable transformation of European thought that occurred between approximately 1550 and 1700, brought with it an ascendancy of the experimental method and the refusal to believe any explanation of natural phenomena that could not be proven to the satisfaction of the empirical observer.
6
Lytton Strachey
Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ASCENDANCY»

Discover the use of ascendancy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ascendancy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Killzone: Ascendancy: Ascendancy
'There is no poetry or romance in war, it is brutal and ugly and terrifying and it turns men into animals - shrieking, screaming and running while destroying all in their path.
Sam Bradbury, 2011
2
Ascendancy of Europe: 1815-1914
This is the updated third edition of M.S. Anderson's best selling work on Europe during its century of global ascendancy.
Matthew Smith Anderson, 2003
3
American Ascendancy: How the United States Gained and ...
Taking the long historical view, Michael Hunt demonstrates that wealth, confidence, and lead What road did Americans travel to reach global preeminence?
Michael H. Hunt, 2007
4
Confucian Discourse and Chu Hsi's Ascendancy
Close attention is given to confrontational writings and debates within the group, which covered such issues as humaneness, the function of the mind, uses of the Book of Changes, social welfare programs, teaching methods, expediency, and ...
Hoyt Cleveland Tillman, 1992
5
The Islamic World in Ascendancy: From the Arab Conquests to ...
Sicker examines the thousand-year ascendancy of Islam from the Arab conquests to the zenith of Ottoman expansionism under Suleiman the Magnificent.
Martin Sicker, 2000
6
The Conservative Ascendancy: how the GOP right made ...
In this provocative history of the Right in modern America, Critchlow finds a deep dilemma inherent in how conservative Republicans expressed their anti-statist ideology in an age of mass democracy and Cold War hostilities.
Donald T Critchlow, 2009
7
The Ascendancy of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh: Class, ...
Investigates the social contradictions, class forces and efforts at political organization that lay behind the powerful nationalist movement in Uttar Pradesh the 1920s and '30s.
Gyanendra Pandey, 2002
8
Dominion from Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power
Bruce Cumings challenges the Atlanticist perspective in this innovative new history, arguing that relations with Asia influenced our history greatly.
Bruce Cumings, 2009
9
The ascendancy of Theravāda Buddhism in Southeast Asia
Prapod Assavavirulhakarn argues that Pali-based Buddhism was brought from India and Sri Lanka by merchants, monks, and pilgrims by the fourth century.
Prapod Assavavirulhakarn, 2010
10
Factors that Contribute to the Career Ascendancy of African ...
That means, through the use of an interview guide, the researcher: (a) studied what professional and personal factors participants believe augmented their career succession and (b) assessed whether or not informants' experiences typify the ...
Monette Dutch Williams, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ASCENDANCY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ascendancy is used in the context of the following news items.
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Did disillusionment with Sunnis lead to Persian ascendancy at US …
American policy-makers tend to have an inflated sense of their own influence on the region, one that is fed by the region's own tendency to ... «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Jul 15»
2
Rory McIlroy ruptures left ankle ligament playing football and is a …
... status at the summit of the world rankings under threat, with Jordan Spieth on a meteoric ascendancy after winning two Major titles this year. «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
3
Remembering Arthur Ashe - an essay of appreciation
Ashe was soon in the ascendancy. He looked up at the clock, it was 2:41 p.m. and he led 6-1, 6-1. Although Connors made a gritty attempt to ... «Wimbledon, Jul 15»
4
Close encounters: A glimpse of Palestinian reality few American …
... Israeli policy, while right-wingers see the ascendancy of the BDS movement as so threatening that Sheldon Adelson, a major backer of Prime ... «Haaretz, Jul 15»
5
Wimbledon 2015, Nick Kyrgios v Richard Gasquet: Live
The ascendancy was short-lived as Gasquet charged back to level at 2-all with a magnificent forehand pass. Preying on Kyrgios' second serve, ... «The Daily Telegraph, Jul 15»
6
Leuey back to best as no. 1 ruck
But it was an eight minute period in the fourth quarter, where Sandilands gained temporary ascendancy which led to four Dockers' goals, that ... «Perth Now, Jul 15»
7
Penny Dreadful: Let's Discuss the Season 2 Finale!
Complete supremacy, cruelty even, ascendancy, conquest." Can you please shut up when i try to kill you? He should have brought his machete ... «TV.com, Jul 15»
8
Greece referendum 'No' vote edition
... ball is in their court and highlight nothing has changed grows by the hour since it became apparent that the 'No' vote was in the ascendancy. «FXStreet, Jul 15»
9
Michael Clarke has evolved into a captain Australia has finally …
As soon as Mitchell Johnson spooked England in Brisbane later that year, Clarke savagely reclaimed the ascendancy. “Get ready for a broken ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
10
Five Takeaways: Round 14
... to the Hawks' 4.2, with a Breust goal in the dying stages of the term giving the Hawks a nine-point ascendancy heading into the last quarter. «Hawthorn Hawks, Jul 15»

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