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# ascension

«ascension» in Mova's school dictionary: **the event when, Christians believe, Jesus rose up into…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (the Ascension; an ascension, ascensions)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (church, Bible) The Ascension is the event when, Christians believe, Jesus rose up into heaven forty days after he rose from the dead. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ascension/#m1)

2) (formal) An ascension is the act of rising or going up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ascension/#m2)

3) (formal) Coming to a high position, such as a king coming to the throne (more often «accession»). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ascension/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In religious education, Ascension Day is a Christian feast day; the story is told in the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles. Ascension Island is a small island in the Atlantic. In formal writing «ascension» means going up, like a balloon's ascension. Phrases: «Ascension Day», «the Ascension of Jesus», «the ascension of a balloon».

### examples

- Christians remember the Ascension of Jesus on Ascension Day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ascension/#x1)
- The Bible says Jesus was taken up into a cloud at his Ascension. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ascension/#x2)
- Our church window shows the Ascension. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ascension/#x3)
- We watched the slow ascension of the hot-air balloon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ascension/#x4)
- Ascension Island is in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ascension/#x5)
- The climbers' ascension of the mountain took three days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ascension/#x6)
- The vicar explained the Ascension to the children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ascension/#x7)

### note

Capital A for the Christian feast. In everyday words, «ascent» is more common for climbing or rising. Related: ascend (verb), ascent. «Accession» is the usual word for a king or queen coming to the throne.

### In the corpora

- [Forty days after Easter Jesus was taken up into heaven; this is called the Ascension.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/19-easter-and-pentecost/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ascension» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ascension/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.