ascension
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7.5
- noun
- /əˈsɛnʃən/
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ascenso
- Balloon ascensions in England became fashionable entertainment, spurring a lucrative market for memorabilia and souvenirs.
- ascension to power
Then they told us he would get a big celebration on night one of the DNC, the prelude to his ascension to Mount Rushmore.
- Then they told us he would get a big celebration on night one of the DNC, the prelude to his ascension to Mount Rushmore.
- What has made your ascension possible as compared to other people who were in your exact position as a young black man?
- And what I seem to find is that when you're on this brand ascension, if you will, most people love to kind of jump the, the probably the first three steps.
- So she kind of got the she got the ascension and I got the decline.
- But the, the Great Pyramid is an ascension device.
- You would you are in your next step on that ascension up out of that place.
- So first, those three things are traffic, conversion and ascension.
- But, but one of the things that we started studying, Mike, was ascension.
Examples
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President Gay, we celebrate your ascension to Harvard's highest office.
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Are you ready for your ascension?
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There is no "one" path to ascension; it is as individual as all of you are.
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What has made your ascension possible as compared to other people who were in your exact position as a young black man?
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In his opinion, Nemerov does not owe his ascension to the military.
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Korean students preferred the ascension into higher educational levels despite government efforts to halt this bias.
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They would like to help humanity to prepare for ascension into a higher, better dimension.
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Meanwhile, the wicked Malvolio plots his ascension to the throne.
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There's a reason for Taiwan's ascension to the top of the heap in terms of chip chip manufacturing around the world.
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After years of hard work, her professional ascension led her to become the CEO of the company.
Synonyms
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2.6
Giving someone a higher job at work
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2.4
A small upward slope in land or a surface
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1.6
An act of moving up, for example on a hill or to a higher job
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3.4
An upward movement to a higher position
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4.2
To move upward, either by climbing or by reaching a higher position
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4.1
Raising someone to a higher job or rank
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4.1
A rise of land, water, or air to a higher level
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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9.4
An object's eastward angle along the sky's equator used to find its position, shown in hours
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A Christian holiday when people remember Jesus going up to heaven forty days after Easter
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An event when Jesus leaves Earth and goes up to heaven forty days after he comes back to life
A Christian belief about Jesus rising to heaven on the 40th day after he came back to life
A Christian holiday marking Jesus going up to heaven forty days after Easter
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Etymology
Ascension comes from Latin parts ad- and scandere, where scandere means 'to climb' and ad- means 'to'. So, like the related word ascend, ascension is the act of 'climbing up', whether it is a fast promotion at work or a hot air balloon rising into the sky.