ASCENT meaning: Climb or rise to higher position

We found 32 dictionaries that define the word Ascent:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

ascent: Merriam-Webster
ascent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
ascent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
ascent: Collins English Dictionary
ascent: Vocabulary.com
Ascent, ascent: Wordnik
ascent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
ascent: Wiktionary
ascent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
ascent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
ascent: Infoplease Dictionary
Ascent, ascent: Dictionary.com
ascent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Ascent (disambiguation), Ascent (journal), Ascent (magazine), Ascent (novel), Ascent, The Ascent (Secrets album), The Ascent (Wiley album), The Ascent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Ascent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
ascent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
ascent: Rhymezone
ascent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
ascent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
ascent: FreeDictionary.org
ascent: Mnemonic Dictionary
ascent: TheFreeDictionary.com
ascent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ascent: Merriam-Webster

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

ascent: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
ascent: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

Ascent (font), ascent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

ASCENT: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ascent)

▸ noun:  The act of ascending; a motion upwards.
▸ noun:  The way or means by which one ascends.
▸ noun:  An eminence, hill, or high place.
▸ noun:  The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; gradient; steepness
▸ noun:  (typography) The ascender height in a typeface.
▸ noun:  An increase, for example in popularity or hierarchy

Similar:

climb, ascending, rise, upgrade, raise, ascension, acclivity, upgoing, upgang, reascent, more...

Opposite:

descent, decline, drop, fall, plummet

Types:

rock climbing, scrambling, free climbing, aid climbing, sport climbing, bouldering, more...

Phrases:

free ascent, The Ascent of Man, Subaru Ascent, First ascent of the Matterhorn, The Ascent of Money, more...

Adjectives:

first, steepest, gradual, long, rapid, slow, easiest, second, gentle, final, spiritual

Colors:

sky blue, light green, sunrise orange, pale yellow, lavender, more...