ASCENSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ascension mean? 

• ASCENSION (noun)
  The noun ASCENSION has 5 senses:

1. (Christianity) celebration of the Ascension of Christ into heaven; observed on the 40th day after Easter

2. a movement upward

3. (New Testament) the rising of the body of Jesus into heaven on the 40th day after his Resurrection

4. (astronomy) the rising of a star above the horizon

5. the act of changing location in an upward direction

  Familiarity information: ASCENSION used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASCENSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Christianity) celebration of the Ascension of Christ into heaven; observed on the 40th day after Easter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Ascension; Ascension Day; Ascension of the Lord

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

holy day of obligation (a day when Catholics must attend Mass and refrain from servile work, and Episcopalians must take Communion)

Domain category:

Christian religion; Christianity (a monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A movement upward

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

ascension; ascent; rise; rising

Context example:

they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon

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

change of location; travel (a movement through space that changes the location of something)

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

climb; climbing; mounting (an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.))

elevation; lift; raising (the event of something being raised upward)

heave; heaving (an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling))

liftoff (the initial ascent of a rocket from its launching pad)

rapid climb; rapid growth; zoom (a rapid rise)

takeoff (the initial ascent of an airplane as it becomes airborne)

upheaval; uplift; upthrow; upthrust ((geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building))

uplifting (the rise of something)

Derivation:

ascend (travel up)

ascensional (tending to rise)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(New Testament) the rising of the body of Jesus into heaven on the 40th day after his Resurrection

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

Ascension; Ascension of Christ

Instance hypernyms:

miracle (a marvellous event manifesting a supernatural act of a divine agent)

Domain category:

New Testament (the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible)

Sense 4

Meaning:

(astronomy) the rising of a star above the horizon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

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

change of location; travel (a movement through space that changes the location of something)

Domain category:

astronomy; uranology (the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole)

Derivation:

ascend (come up, of celestial bodies)

ascensional (tending to rise)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The act of changing location in an upward direction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

ascending; ascension; ascent; rise

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

motion; move; movement (the act of changing location from one place to another)

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

levitation (the act of raising (a body) from the ground by presumably spiritualistic means)

heave; heaving (the act of lifting something with great effort)

climb; mount (the act of climbing something)

soar; zoom (the act of rising upward into the air)

Derivation:

ascend (travel up)

ascensional (tending to rise)