- the sign of the zodiac that is on the eastern horizon at the time and location of an event, particularly a birth
- I’m a Capricorn but my ascendant is Leo.
Word Originlate Middle English: via Old French from Latin ascendent- ‘climbing up’, from the verb ascendere, from ad- ‘to’ + scandere ‘to climb’.
Idioms
See ascendant in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryin the ascendant
- (formal) being or becoming more powerful or popular
- British pop music is once again in the ascendant.
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