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

Derived terms

• Ascension Parish

Related terms

• Ascension Island

Translations

entering heaven alive

• Armenian: համբարձում (hy) (hambarjum)
• Bulgarian: възнесение (bg) n (vǎznesenie)
• Dutch: hemelvaart (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: ĉieliro
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• Finnish: taivaaseenastuminen
• Norman: Ascension f (Jersey)
• Portuguese: Ascensão (pt) f
• Russian: вознесе́ние (ru) n (voznesénije)

Jesus' rise to heaven

• Armenian: համբարձում (hy) (hambarjum)
• Bulgarian: възнесение (bg) n (vǎznesenie)
• Catalan: Ascensió f
• Danish: himmelfart c, Kristi himmelfart
• Dutch: Hemelvaart (nl) m or f
• Finnish: taivaaseenastuminen
• French: Ascension (fr) f
• German: Himmelfahrt (de) f, Christi Himmelfahrt (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: Ανάληψη f (Análipsi)
• Italian: Ascensione (it) f
• Maori: Kakenga
• Norman: Ascension f (Jersey)
• Portuguese: Ascensão (pt) f
• Russian: вознесе́ние (ru) n (voznesénije)
• Spanish: Ascensión (es) f

holiday celebrating Ascension of Jesus — see Ascension Day

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Translations to be checked

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 升天 (zh) (shēngtiān)

• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} mennybemenetel (hu)
• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 昇天 (ja) f (しょうてん, shōten)
• Maltese: ^{(please verify)} Lapsi
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• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} Вазнесењ n

  Roman: ^{(please verify)} Vaznesenj n

• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} Thăng thiên

See also

• Rapture

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• canonises, sonancies

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.sɑ̃.sjɔ̃/

Proper noun

Ascension ?

1. (Christianity) Ascension; the holiday commemorating the Ascension of Jesus.

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Norman

Etymology

From ascension, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ascēnsiō, ascēnsiōnem.

Noun

Ascension f

1. (Jersey, Christianity) Ascension