ascent
ascent is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The way or means by which one ascends.
- 2.An eminence, hill, or high place. Addison.
- 3.The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising grade; as, a road has an ascent of five degrees.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- accession
- acclivity
- accretion
- add
- additional
- advance
- aggrandize
- aggrandizement
- aggravate
- aggravation
- ahead
- ascend
- augment
- augmentation
- bank
- beach
- bend
- bevel
- bias
- cant
- crescendo
- crookedness
- curve
- declivity
- deepen
- descent
- development
- devexity
- dilatation
- dilate
- dip
- disperse
- dispersion
- distortion
- downhill
- easy
- enhance
- enlarge
- enlargement
- exacerbate
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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