Meaning

6 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of ascending; a motion upwards.

    He made a tedious ascent of Mont Blanc.

    Anstieg, Aufstieg, Besteigung

    восхожде́ниеvosxoždénije, подъёмpodʺjóm

    підйомpidjom

  2. (countable, uncountable)The way or means by which one ascends.

    There is a difficult northern ascent from Malaucene of Mont Ventoux.

    Aufstieg

  3. (countable, uncountable)An eminence, hill, or high place.

    Anhöhe

  4. (countable, uncountable)The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; gradient; steepness

    The road has an ascent of 5 degrees.

    Steigung, Anstieg

  5. (countable, uncountable)The ascender height in a typeface.

  6. (countable, uncountable)An increase, for example in popularity or hierarchy

More definitions
  • an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
  • the act of changing location in an upward direction
  • a movement upward; rise above the ground

Examples

6 sentences
  1. The rocket landed safely after its ascent.

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  2. The ascent is easy.

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  3. The next morning it was blowing a gale, and we had to delay the ascent.

    deAm nächsten Morgen stürmte es, und wir mussten mit dem Aufstieg warten.

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  4. They made first ascent of Mount Everest.

    deSie waren die Erstbesteiger des Mount Everest.

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  5. The economic development of Algeria will be an arduous ascent.

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Translations

6 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
act of ascending; motion upwards:
Русский
By meaning 1
act of ascending; motion upwards:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
act of ascending; motion upwards:
eminence, hill, or high place:
degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line:

Origin

Formed from ascend on the model of descend/descent.

Formed from ascend on the model of descend/descent.

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Forms

plural: ascents
Singularascent
Pluralascents

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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