ascender
ascender noun: a person or thing that ascends.
Noun
ascender (plural ascenders)
- A person or thing that ascends.
- The portion of a lowercase letter that extends above the midline.
- Catherine had a paperback called Graphology: The Mind in the Hand, which gave her all sorts of warnings about people’s tendencies and repressions (“Artist or Madman?” “Pet or Brute?”). “It's those enormous ascenders, darling,” she said: “I see a lot of ego.”2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 1, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN
- A lowercase letter that has such a portion, such as d or h.
- a mechanical device used for ascending on a rope; ascendeur.
ascender meaning in Tamil and Kannada
ascender in Tamil
- மேற்கூறு
Forms of ascender
| plural | ascenders |
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Origin of ascender
From ascend + -er.
Words that rhyme with ascender
- render
- tender
- bender
- surrender
- transgender
- gender
- pretender
- defender
- descender
- engender
- fender
- attender
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Questions about ascender
- What does ascender mean?
- Ascender means a person or thing that ascends.
- What is ascender in Tamil?
- Ascender in Tamil is மேற்கூறு. See Ascender meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is ascender?
- Ascender is a noun.
- What is the plural of ascender?
- The plural of ascender is ascenders.
Words near ascender in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: ascender (page history and authors); ascender (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ascender (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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