ascend
pronunciation
How to pronounce ascend in British English:
UK [əˈsend]
How to pronounce ascend in American English:
US [əˈsend]
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- Verb:
- travel up, "We ascended the mountain"
- go back in order of genealogical succession
- become king or queen
- go along towards (a river's) source
- slope upwards
- come up, of celestial bodies
Word Origin
- ascend
- ascend: see descend
- ascend (v.)
- late 14c., from Latin ascendere "to climb up, mount, ascend," figuratively "to rise, reach," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + scandere "to climb" (see scan (v.)). Also in 15c. used with a sense "to mount (a female) for copulation." Related: Ascended; ascending. An Old English word for it was stigan.
Antonym
Example
- 1. He could then ascend to the prime ministerial job after elections in 2014 .
- 2. Ascend the elevator at h-8 and prepare to kill or invis by the orcs roaming outside the house .
- 3. Mr. hayes of ascend says many of the crashes around the world happen with smaller , perhaps even obscure airlines .
- 4. They won 't suddenly ascend or descend just because they drop the connection to this particular physical plane .
- 5. Instead of flying straight , planes must zigzag from one ground beacon to the next , and ascend and descend in steps , at each stage obtaining permission from the ground .