- a position of dominance or controlling influence: possession of power, superiority, or preeminence: With his rivals in the ascendant, he soon lost his position.
- an ancestor; forebear.
- the point of the ecliptic or the sign and degree of the zodiac rising above the eastern horizon at the time of a birth or event: the cusp of the first house.
- ascending; rising.
- superior; predominant.
- directed or curved upward.
- proceeding upwards; rising
- dominant, superior, or influential
- botany another term for ascending
- an ancestor
- a position or condition of dominance, superiority or control
- astrology (sometimes capital)
- a point on the ecliptic that rises on the eastern horizon at a particular moment and changes as the earth rotates on its axis
- the sign of the zodiac containing this point
- increasing in influence, prosperity, etc
