English-German translations for ascendant

• Vorfahr der

Definition of ascendant

• Rising, moving upward
• Surpassing or controlling
• Being in control; superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency
• An ancestor (antonym of descendant
• '''A royal heir assuming (a place of power
• Ascent; height; elevation
• The horoscope, or that degree of the ecliptic which rises above the horizon at the moment of one's birth; supposed to have a commanding influence on a person's life and fortune

Examples

• One man has the ascendant over another.
• Given his fathers ghastly demise, one would not expect such glee from the ascendant to his throne.

Related words

• ascendancy
• ascendants
• ascendance
• period of ascendancy