Ascension

See also ascension, ascensión, and Ascensión

English

Proper noun

Ascension

1. (religion) entering heaven while still alive
2. (Christianity) specifically, the believed entry of Jesus Christ into heaven after his resurrection.
3. (Christianity) a holiday celebrating the Ascension of Jesus, 40 days after Easter.

Synonyms

• (entering heaven): assumption, translation
• (holiday): Ascension Day

See also

• Rapture

Translations

entering heaven alive

• Esperanto: ĉieliro (eo)
• Finnish: taivaaseenastuminen (fi)

• Jèrriais: Ascension f
• Russian: вознесе́ние (ru) (voznesénije) n

Jesus' rise to heaven

• Finnish: taivaaseenastuminen (fi)
• German: Himmelfahrt (de) f, Christi Himmelfahrt (de)
• Greek: Ανάληψη (el) (Análipsi) f

• Jèrriais: Ascension f
• Russian: вознесе́ние (ru) (voznesénije) n

holiday celebrating Ascension of Jesus

• Finnish: helatorstai (fi)
• German: Himmelfahrt (de) f, Christi Himmelfahrt (de)
• Greek: Ανάληψη (el) (Análipsi) f

• Jèrriais: Ascension f
• Russian: Вознесе́ние (ru) (Voznesénije) n
• Swedish: Kristi himmelsfärdsdag (sv)

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• Bulgarian: Възнесение (bg) (Văznesenie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 升天 (cmn) (shēngtiān)

• Danish: himmelfart (da) c
• French: Ascension (fr) f
• Hungarian: mennybemenetel (hu)
• Italian: Ascensione (it) f

• Japanese: 昇天 (ja) (しょうてん, shōten) f
• Maltese: Lapsi (mt)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Вазнесењ (sh) n

  Roman: Vaznesenj (sh) n

• Spanish: Ascensión (es) f
• Vietnamese: Thăng thiên (vi)

External links

• Ascension of Jesus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Ascension of Jesus
• Entering heaven alive on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Entering heaven alive

Anagrams

• canonises

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Jèrriais

Etymology

From ascension, from Latin ascēnsiō, ascēnsiōnem.

Noun

Ascension f

1. (religion, Christianity) Ascension