ALL meanings of ascend
as·cend
A a - verb transitive ascend to succeed to (a throne) 3
- verb ascend If you ascend a hill or staircase, you go up it. 3
- verb ascend If a staircase or path ascends, it leads up to a higher position. 3
- verb ascend If something ascends, it moves up, usually vertically or into the air. 3
- verb ascend If someone ascends to an important position, they achieve it or are appointed to it. When someone ascends a throne, they become king, queen, or pope. 3
- verb ascend If you ascend in your career or in society, you gradually achieve success or a higher status. 3
- verb ascend In some religions, when someone's soul goes to heaven, you can say that they ascend to heaven. 3
- verb ascend If something or someone ascends to a higher level, they reach a state that is better than the one they were in before. 3
- verb ascend to go or move up (a ladder, hill, slope, etc); mount; climb 3
- verb ascend to slope or incline upwards 3
- verb ascend to rise to a higher point, level, degree, etc 3
- verb ascend to follow (a river) upstream towards its source 3
- verb ascend to trace (a genealogy, etc) back in time 3
- verb ascend to sing or play (a scale, arpeggio, etc) from the lower to higher notes 3
- intransitive verb ascend to go up; move upward; rise 3
- intransitive verb ascend to proceed from a lower to a higher level or degree, as in rank, pitch, etc. 3
- intransitive verb ascend to slope or lead upward 3
- intransitive verb ascend to go back in time or line of ancestry 3
- verb transitive ascend to move upward along; mount; climb 3
- verb transitive ascend to move toward the source of 3
- noun ascend Go up or climb. 1
- intransitive verb ascend go upwards 1
- transitive verb ascend go up 1
- verb without object ascend to move, climb, or go upward; mount; rise: The airplane ascended into the clouds. 1
- verb without object ascend to slant upward. 1
- verb without object ascend to rise to a higher point, rank, or degree; proceed from an inferior to a superior degree or level: to ascend to the presidency. 1
- verb without object ascend to go toward the source or beginning; go back in time. 1
- verb without object ascend Music. to rise in pitch; pass from any tone to a higher one. 1
- verb with object ascend to go or move upward upon or along; climb; mount: to ascend a lookout tower; to ascend stairs. 1
- verb with object ascend to gain or succeed to; acquire: to ascend the throne. 1
- verb ascend (Intransitive Verb) To move upward, to fly, to soar. 0
- verb ascend (Intransitive Verb) To slope in an upward direction. 0
- verb ascend (Transitive Verb) To go up. 0
- verb ascend (Transitive Verb) To succeed. 0
- verb ascend (figuratively) To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc. 0