Usually means: Rising to a higher level.
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  1. Ascension, ascension, the Ascension, the ascension: Merriam-Webster
  2. Ascension, ascension: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ascension: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ascension: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Ascension, ascension: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ascension, ascension: Wordnik
  7. Ascension, ascension: Wiktionary
  8. ascension: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. ascension: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. ascension: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Ascension, ascension, the ascension: Dictionary.com
  12. Ascension (A Flock of Seagulls album), Ascension (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Ascension (Christianity), Ascension (Djam Karet album), Ascension (Don't Ever Wonder), Ascension (Gorillaz song), Ascension (Jesu album), Ascension (John Coltrane album), Ascension (Pep Love album), Ascension (Star Wars novel), Ascension (Stargate), Ascension (Stargate SG-1), Ascension (TV series), Ascension (The X-Files), Ascension (miniseries), Ascension (mystical), Ascension, The Ascension (2face Idibia album), The Ascension (Glenn Branca album), The Ascension (Otep album), The Ascension (Phil Wickham album), The Ascension (professional wrestling), The Ascension (wrestling), The Ascension: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Ascension: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. ascension: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. ascension: Rhymezone
  16. Ascension, ascension (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. ascension: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. ascension: FreeDictionary.org
  19. ascension: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. ascension: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. Ascension (comics), Ascension (company): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  22. ascension: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  23. ascension: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ascension (disambiguation), ascension: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ascension: Easton Bible
  2. Ascension: Catholic Encyclopedia
  3. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ascension, ascension: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The act of ascending; an ascent.
noun:  A transcendence of the material world; a transition to a higher form, state, or plane of existence.
noun:  That which rises, as from distillation.
noun:  (religion) Entry into heaven while still alive.
noun:  (Christianity, specifically) The believed entry of Jesus Christ into heaven after his resurrection.
noun:  (Christianity) A holiday celebrating the Ascension of Jesus, 40 days after Easter.
noun:  Ellipsis of Ascension Island. [An island, in the South Atlantic and part of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha.]

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