Ascension

See also: ascension, ascensión, and Ascensión

English

Proper noun

Ascension

1. (religion) Entry into 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.
4. Ellipsis of Ascension Island.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• Ascension Island
• Ascension Parish
• Ascensiontide

Translations

entering heaven alive

• Armenian: համբարձում (hy) (hambarjum)
• Bulgarian: възнесение (bg) n (vǎznesenie)
• Dutch: hemelvaart (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: ĉieliro
• Finnish: taivaaseenastuminen
• Norman: Ascension f (Jersey)
• Plautdietsch: Himmelfoat f
• 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), Aszension f
• Greek: Ανάληψη (el) f (Análipsi)
• Hungarian: mennybemenetel (hu)
• Italian: Ascensione (it) f
• Maori: Kakenga
• Norman: Ascension f (Jersey)
• Plautdietsch: Himmelfoat f
• Polish: Wniebowstąpienie (pl) n
• 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)

• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 昇天 (ja) f (しょうてん, shōten)
• Maltese: ^{(please verify)} Lapsi
• 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

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.sɑ̃.sjɔ̃/

Proper noun

Ascension f

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

Norman

Etymology

From ascension, from Latin ascēnsiō, ascēnsiōnem.

Noun

Ascension f

1. (Jersey, Christianity) Ascension