1. Unclassified
The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth.
2. Unclassified
The way or means by which one ascends.
3. Unclassified
An eminence, hill, or high place.
4. Unclassified
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.
5. Noun
an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise"
Vocabulary classified under Nature and environment
6. Noun
a movement upward; rise above the ground; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon"
Vocabulary classified under Sociology
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