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English

Etymology

ascend +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?nd?(?)

Noun

ascender (plural ascenders)

1. A person or thing that ascends.
2. (typography, graphology) The portion of a lowercase letter that extends above the midline.
   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 1,

     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.”

3. (climbing) a mechanical device used for ascending on a rope; ascendeur.

Coordinate terms

• descender

Related terms

• ascend
• ascent
• ascendant
• ascendance
• ascendancy/ascendency
• ascending

Translations

Anagrams

• reascend

Interlingua

Verb

ascender

1. to ascend, go up

Conjugation

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ascendo, ascendere.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.s?.?de(?)/

Verb

ascender (first-person singular present indicative ascendo, past participle ascendido)

1. (intransitive) to ascend; to rise

   Synonyms: subir, alçar

Conjugation

Related terms

• ascensão
• descender

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ascendo, ascendere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /as?en?de?/, [as.??n??d?e?]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /asen?de?/, [a.s?n??d?e?]

Verb

ascender (first-person singular present asciendo, first-person singular preterite ascendí, past participle ascendido)

1. to ascend, to mount, to climb

   Antonym: descender

2. (business) to advance
3. (of status) to rise

Conjugation

Related terms

Further reading

• “ascender” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Middle English ascenden, borrowed from Old French ascendre, from Latin ascend? (“to go up, climb up to”), from ad (“to”) + scand? (“to climb”); see scan. Unrelated to accede other than common ad prefix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??s?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd
• Hyphenation: as?cend

Verb

ascend (third-person singular simple present ascends, present participle ascending, simple past and past participle ascended)

1. (intransitive) To move upward, to fly, to soar.

   He ascended to heaven upon a cloud.

2. (intransitive) To slope in an upward direction.
3. (transitive) To go up.

   You ascend the stairs and take a right.

4. (transitive) To succeed.

   She ascended the throne when her mother abdicated.

5. (intransitive, figuratively) To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.
6. To trace, search or go backwards temporally (e.g., through records, genealogies, routes, etc.).

   Our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity.

7. (transitive, music) To become higher in pitch.

Antonyms

• descend

Related terms

• ascent
• ascendant
• ascendance
• ascendancy/ascendency
• ascending
• ascender
• ascension
• transcend

Translations

See also

• climb

Further reading

• ascend in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ascend in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Dances, dances, decans, descan

French

Verb

ascend

1. third-person singular present indicative of ascendre