SkyfireDict

ascent   (TTS Sound)

The noun ascent has 3 senses

• ascent, acclivity, rise, raise, climb, upgrade -- (an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise")


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


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