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Ascension
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ascension ascensión Ascensión
English
Proper noun
en religion entry into heaven while still alive.
en assumption translation
en Christianity specifically The believed entry of Jesus Christ into heaven after his resurrection.
en Christianity A holiday celebrating the Ascension of Jesus, 40 days after Easter.
en Ascension Day
en Ascension Island.
en 2023 Martin MacInnes In Ascension Atlantic Books 453 For a relatively unpromising scrap of land – 88 square kilometres of infertile shore and mountain – Ascension attracted a lot of interest.
Derived terms
en Ascension crake
en Ascension Island
en Ascension Parish
en Ascensiontide
Translations
entering heaven alive
Armenian: hy համբարձում
Bulgarian: bg възнесение n
Dutch: nl hemelvaart m f
Esperanto: eo ĉieliro
Finnish: fi taivaaseenastuminen
Norman: nrf Ascension f Jersey
Plautdietsch: pdt Himmelfoat f
Polish: pl wniebowstąpienie n
Portuguese: pt Ascensão f
Russian: ru вознесе́ние n
Jesus' rise to heaven
Arabic: ar صُعُود
Armenian: hy համբարձում
Bulgarian: bg възнесение n
Catalan: ca Ascensió f
Danish: da himmelfart c, da Kristi himmelfart
Dutch: nl Hemelvaart m f
Finnish: fi taivaaseenastuminen
French: fr Ascension f
Georgian: ka ამაღლება
German: de Himmelfahrt f, de Christi Himmelfahrt, de Aszension f
Greek: el Ανάληψη f
Hungarian: hu mennybemenetel
Italian: it Ascensione f
Māori: mi Kakenga
Norman: nrf Ascension f Jersey
Plautdietsch: pdt Himmelfoat f
Polish: pl Wniebowstąpienie n
Portuguese: pt Ascensão f
Russian: ru вознесе́ние n
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: dsb do-njebja-stupjenje n
Spanish: es Ascensión f
holiday celebrating Ascension of Jesus Ascension Day
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 升天 shēngtiān
Japanese: ja 昇天 f しょうてん, shōten
Maltese: mt Lapsi
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Вазнесењ n
Latin: sh Vaznesenj n
Vietnamese: vi Thăng thiên
See also
Rapture
Further reading
Ascension of Jesus
Entering heaven alive
Anagrams
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en Easter Holidays
French
Pronunciation
Proper noun
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fr Christianity en Ascension; the holiday commemorating the Ascension of Jesus
fr Holidays
Norman
Etymology
From nrf ascension, from nrf la ascensio ascēnsiō, ascēnsiōnem.
Noun
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nrf Jersey Christianity en Ascension