ascentas‧cent /əˈsent/ noun 
the first ascent of Everest2[countable usually singular] a path or way up to the top of something, for example a mountain OPP descent: a rugged and steep ascent3[uncountable] the process of becoming more important, powerful, or successful than before SYN rise OPP fallascent to the president’s ascent to power
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- He wrote a best-selling book about the first ascent of Everest.
- The final ascent of Kilimanjaro began at 5:00 a.m.
- The men began their final ascent at six o'clock the next day.
- Yeltsin's ascent to the presidency of Russia
- I leant against a rock and watched Will choose his line of ascent.
- It's a steep ascent but the compensation is a swift gaining of the ridge.
- Some of the four million annual visitors seem to find the mere ascent insufficiently fulfilling.
- The ascent had taken 4 hours!
- Unfortunately this fell out on the third ascent.
Longman Language Activatorto climb up or down something
to move up towards the top of a wall, mountain, tree etc, using your hands and feet: · Most kids love climbing trees.· Trying not to look down, Alan began to climb.climb up/over/onto etc: · Several fans climbed onto the roof of the arena to get a better view.· One of the boys lost his footing as he was climbing up the steepest part of the cliff.climb down (=go down a wall, tree etc using your hands and feet): · The burglar escaped by climbing down a drainpipe.
especially written to climb to the top of something very high, especially something that is very difficult or dangerous to climb: · Somehow the men had scaled the twenty-foot wall without setting off the alarm.· Rescuers had to scale a one-thousand-foot cliff before they could reach the injured climber.
to climb in an awkward way or with difficulty, but moving fairly quickly: clamber up/down/to etc: · At last we saw the two girls clambering down the slope to safety.· Hundreds of people clambered to the roof of the building to watch the fire spread.
British /shinny up/down American to climb up or down something tall and narrow such as a pipe, tree, or rope, by wrapping your legs around it and pulling yourself up with your arms: · I locked myself out of the house and had to shinny up a drainpipe to get in.· We watched as small boys shinned up palm trees and brought coconuts down.· Craig shinned down the rope to where we were standing.
the act of climbing something, especially a mountain: · The men began their final ascent at six o'clock the next day.· He wrote a best-selling book about the first ascent of Everest.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Ridgeway’s solo voyage across the AtlanticCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
1[countable usually singular] the act of climbing something or moving upwards OPP descent: Ridgeway’s solo voyage across the Atlantic· It's a steep ascent but the compensation is a swift gaining of the ridge.· From here to the top was a steep ascent of some five hundred yards, covered with large rocks and fallen timber.· Follow the path west passing over a high stile and making a steep ascent to the summit of Y Garn.· At the foot of the last steep ascent..· Not until I began to feel the horses straining up the steep ascent to our house did I open my eyes.
VERB· But instead, he heard them begin the ascent of the stairs.· Three days after that, I learned that I could begin the ascent with my eyes open.· Pat drives up to it and begins a vertical ascent.
· James made his last ascent in September 1816.· Misery and misfortune are not misery and misfortune alone but the rungs of a ladder up which man makes his ascent.· She made the ascent of Nevis a pleasure, but now I was grown up and Wendyless.· Many people come to make the ascent, some to climb its tremendous cliffs, others merely to look at it.· A night at Fort William gave me a long awaited opportunity of making the ascent.· In the next five years he made about forty ascents as a professional balloonist.· I finned madly for the surface, and was told off very severely for making an ascent like a pricked balloon.· Tony Mitchell made a rapid second ascent to keep his reputation as the man who has done everything.
the first ascent of Everest2[countable usually singular] a path or way up to the top of something, for example a mountain OPP descent: a rugged and steep ascent3[uncountable] the process of becoming more important, powerful, or successful than before SYN rise OPP fallascent to the president’s ascent to power