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in the ascendant

in the ascendant prepositional phrase: becoming more popular, powerful, or relevant; on the rise.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Becoming more popular, powerful, or relevant; on the rise.
    • Towards the end of the session of 1836, the hopes of the Conservative party were again in the ascendant.1844, B[enjamin] Disraeli, chapter V, in Coningsby; or, The New Generation. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, book IV, page 47
    • [T]hose poets, […] by enriching the common language and by circulating from to town to town either in person or in their compositions, contributed to fan the flame of Pan-Hellenic patriotism at a time when there were few circumstances to co-operate with them, and when the causes tending to...1847, George Grote, “Lyric Poetry—The Seven Wise Men”, in History of Greece, volume IV, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, part II (Continuation of Historical Greece), page 136

Questions about in the ascendant

What does in the ascendant mean?
In the ascendant means becoming more popular, powerful, or relevant; on the rise.
What part of speech is in the ascendant?
In the ascendant is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in the ascendant in the dictionary

  1. in the air
  2. in the altogether
  3. in the arms of Morpheus
  4. in the arms of Murphy
  5. in the article of death
  6. in the ascendant
  7. in the back seat
  8. in the bag
  9. in the ballpark
  10. in the bargain
  11. in the barrel

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