ascent
Meaning of ascent
noun
- The act of ascending; a motion upwards.
He made a tedious ascent of Mont Blanc.
- The way or means by which one ascends.
There is a difficult northern ascent from Malaucene of Mont Ventoux.
- An eminence, hill, or high place.
- The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising grade.
The road has an ascent of 5 degrees.
- The ascender height in a typeface.
- An increase, for example in popularity or hierarchy
Information about ascent
- It is a name.
- The plural form of ascent is: ascents.
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Hyphenation of ascent
as-cent
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- ascent is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
ascent synonyms
Meaning acclivity:
acclivity, rise, raise, climb, upgrade
Meaning rise:
rise, rising, ascension, ascending
Translation of ascent
- French: montée, ascension
- German: Besteigung, Aufstieg, Anstieg
- Italian: ascesa, salita
- Portuguese: subida
- Spanish: ascensión, pendiente, cuesta, subida
Anagrams of ascent
casten, centas, Cestan, enacts, secant, stance
Words that rhyme with ascent
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