ASCENDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ascender mean? 

• ASCENDER (noun)
  The noun ASCENDER has 3 senses:

1. someone who ascends

2. a lowercase letter that has a part extending above other lowercase letters

3. (printing) the part of tall lowercase letters that extends above the other lowercase letters

  Familiarity information: ASCENDER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASCENDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who ascends

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("ascender" is a kind of...):

mover (someone who moves)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ascender"):

climber; mounter (someone who ascends on foot)

Derivation:

ascend (travel up)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A lowercase letter that has a part extending above other lowercase letters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("ascender" is a kind of...):

alphabetic character; letter; letter of the alphabet (the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech)

Derivation:

ascend (slope upwards)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(printing) the part of tall lowercase letters that extends above the other lowercase letters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("ascender" is a kind of...):

line (a mark that is long relative to its width)

Domain category:

printing; printing process (reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication)