ascension – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
ascension
n.
process of ascending, rising, climbing, mounting
n.
(New Testament) day that Jesus rose to heaven
the Ascension
day that Jesus rose to heaven
Ascension
Ascension may refer to:
Religion
- Ascension (mystical), the belief in some religions that there are certain rare individuals that have ascended into Heaven directly without dying first
- Ascension of Jesus, the bodily ascension of Jesus into heaven
- Feast of the Ascension (Ascension day), an annual day of feast commemorating Jesus' ascension; a public holiday in several countries
- The ascending of Muhammad to heaven known as Isra and Mi'raj
- Ascension to heaven of Enoch (ancestor of Noah)
- The Ascension, another title for the Old English poem Christ II
- The Ascension, Lavender Hill, an Anglo-Catholic church situated on Lavender Hill, Battersea, South West London
- Enlightenment (spiritual), including:
- Ascended master, in Ascended Master Teachings a spiritually enlightened being who in past incarnations was an ordinary human, but who has undergone a series of spiritual transformations originally called initiations
- In some New Age teachings the spiritual transformation of the Earth
Ascensión
Ascension
Noun
1. (Christianity) celebration of the Ascension of Christ into heaven; observed on the 40th day after Easter
(synonym) Ascension Day, Ascension of the Lord
(hypernym) holy day of obligation
(classification) Christianity, Christian religion
2. (New Testament) the rising of the body of Jesus into heaven on the 40th day after his Resurrection
(synonym) Ascension of Christ
(hypernym) miracle
(classification) New Testament
ascension
Noun
1. a movement upward; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon"
(synonym) rise, rising, ascent
(hypernym) change of location, travel
(hyponym) climb, climbing, mounting
(derivation) ascend, go up
2. (astronomy) the rising of a star above the horizon
(hypernym) change of location, travel
(derivation) rise, come up, uprise, ascend
(classification) astronomy, uranology
3. the act of changing location in an upward direction
(synonym) rise, ascent, ascending
(hypernym) motion, movement, move
(hyponym) levitation
(derivation) ascend, go up
L'Ascension (fête)
nf.
Ascensiontide, period observing the withdrawal of Christ into Heaven (Catholicism)
ascension
nf.
ascension, place of ascent, ascent
ascensión
nf.
ascension
