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Ascension en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. Entry into heaven while still alive.
  2. (specifically) The believed entry of Jesus Christ into heaven after his resurrection.
  3. A holiday celebrating the Ascension of Jesus, 40 days after Easter.
  4. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Ascension Island.
    • For a relatively unpromising scrap of land – 88 square kilometres of infertile shore and mountain – Ascension attracted a lot of interest. 2023, Martin MacInnes, In Ascension, Atlantic Books, page 453:

Deriveds

Ascension crake · Ascensiontide · Ascension Parish · Ascension Island

Relateds

Rapture

Synonyms

translation · Ascension Day · assumption

Translations (34)

da Kristi himmelfart (Jesus' rise to heaven) · es Ascensión (Jesus' rise to heaven) · de Himmelfahrt (Jesus' rise to heaven) · bg възнесение (Jesus' rise to heaven) · fi taivaaseenastuminen (Jesus' rise to heaven) · hy համբարձում (Jesus' rise to heaven) · ru вознесе́ние (Jesus' rise to heaven) · nl Hemelvaart (Jesus' rise to heaven) · pdt Himmelfoat (Jesus' rise to heaven) · eo ĉieliro (entering heaven alive) · pl wniebowstąpienie (entering heaven alive) · nrf Ascension (Jesus' rise to heaven) · nl hemelvaart (entering heaven alive) · de Christi Himmelfahrt (Jesus' rise to heaven) · dsb do-njebja-stupjenje (Jesus' rise to heaven) · hy համբարձում (entering heaven alive) · ka ამაღლება (Jesus' rise to heaven) · ru вознесе́ние (entering heaven alive) · da himmelfart (Jesus' rise to heaven) · mi Kakenga (Jesus' rise to heaven) · fr Ascension (Jesus' rise to heaven) · pt Ascensão (entering heaven alive) · fi taivaaseenastuminen (entering heaven alive) · ca Ascensió (Jesus' rise to heaven) · ar صُعُود (Jesus' rise to heaven) · pdt Himmelfoat (entering heaven alive) · nrf Ascension (entering heaven alive) · hu mennybemenetel (Jesus' rise to heaven) · bg възнесение (entering heaven alive) · pt Ascensão (Jesus' rise to heaven) · el Ανάληψη (Jesus' rise to heaven) · pl Wniebowstąpienie (Jesus' rise to heaven) · it Ascensione (Jesus' rise to heaven) · de Aszension (Jesus' rise to heaven)