Definitions for ascent

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ascent as·cent

Spelling: [uh-sent]

IPA: /əˈsɛnt/

Ascent is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 164 anagrams from letters in ascent (acenst).

Definitions for ascent

noun

1. an act of ascending; upward movement; a rising movement:
2. movement upward from a lower to a higher state, degree, grade, or status; advancement:
3. the act of climbing or traveling up:
4. the way or means of ascending; upward slope; acclivity.
5. a movement or return toward a source or beginning.
6. the degree of inclination; gradient:

Origin of ascent

1590-1600; derivative of ascend, on the model of descent

Examples for ascent

There appeared to be no ascent the one way or the other, and no slope on either side.

Watching Paar do his last Tonight show was almost like witnessing an ascent into clouds.

I hope that my spirits and emotions will join them in this ascent.

In October 2006, she pioneered the first ascent of Nagpai Gusun, a 7,000-meter peak in the Khumbu region.

For hours it seemed that every ascent, every descent, must mark the end.

The ascent was perilous at any hour to any foot save that of a mountaineer.

They were near the crown of the ascent, and he could carry her as far as that!

The descent was as laborious as the ascent had been, and much more dangerous.

When the young woman is ready to emerge from her weeks in hiding, she attends a ceremony marking her ascent into true womanhood.

You have to take a long-term look at the ascent of something that fundamentally changes the power structure of America.