Definition of ascend Ascend

/ʌsɛˈnd/ - [usend] - as•cend

We found 19 definitions of ascend from 6 different sources.

What does ascend mean?

WordNet

Verb ascends, ascending, ascended
ascend - travel up, "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder"; "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope"
		go up
		descend, come down, go down, fall move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again"
		locomote, travel, move, go change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast"
		rise up, surface, come up, rise come to the surface
		uprise ascend as a sound; "The choirs singing uprose and filled the church"
ascend - slope upwards; "The path ascended to the top of the hill"
		slope, incline, pitch be at an angle; "The terrain sloped down"
ascend - become king or queen; "She ascended to the throne after the King's death"
		accede, enter take on duties or office; "accede to the throne"
ascend - move to a better position in life or to a better job; "She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great
		move up, rise
		change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night"
ascend - go along towards (a river's) source; "The boat ascended the Delaware"
		travel along, follow behave in accordance or in agreement with; "Follow a pattern"; "Follow my example"
ascend - go back in order of genealogical succession; "Inheritance may not ascend linearly"
		date back, date from go back
ascend - appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils; "the vine climbed up the side of the house"
		climb up
ascend - come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends"
		rise, come up, uprise
		go under, go down, set be defeated; "If America goes down, the free world will go down, too"
		move up, arise, go up, uprise, come up, rise, lift result or issue; "A slight unpleasantness arose from this discussion"
		astronomy, uranology the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole

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Wiktionary

ascend (Verb)
To move upward, to fly, to soar.
ascend (Verb)
To slope in an upward direction.
ascend (Verb)
To go up.
ascend (Verb)
To succeed.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

ascend (v. i.)
To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.
ascend (v. i.)
To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from particulars to generals, from modern to ancient times, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to our first progenitor.
ascend (v. t.)
To go or move upward upon or along; to climb; to mount; to go up the top of; as, to ascend a hill, a ladder, a tree, a river, a throne.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

ascend
To go up, e.g. by flying or gliding; to travel up.
ascend
To go up to a higher degree or the highest degree.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

ascend
as-send′, v.i. to climb or mount up: to rise, literally or figuratively: to go backwards in the order of time.—v.t. to climb or go up on: to mount.—adjs. Ascend′able, Ascend′ible.—Ascending rhythm, in prosody, a rhythm in which the arsis follows the thesis, as an iambic or anapæstic rhythm: opposed to descending rhythms, as the trochaic and dactylic. [L. ascendĕre, ascensum—ad, and scandĕre, to climb.]