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ascension   (TTS Sound)

The noun ascension has 5 senses

• Ascension, Ascension Day, Ascension of the Lord -- ((Christianity) celebration of the Ascension of Christ into heaven; observed on the 40th day after Easter)


• rise, rising, ascent, ascension -- (a movement upward; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon")


• Ascension, Ascension of Christ -- ((New Testament) the rising of the body of Jesus into heaven on the 40th day after his Resurrection)


• ascension -- ((astronomy) the rising of a star above the horizon)


• rise, ascent, ascension, ascending -- (the act of changing location in an upward direction)