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clime
English
Etymology
From Latin clima, from Ancient Greek ????? (klíma, “(zone of) latitude”, literally “inclination”), from ????? (klín?, “to slope, incline”). See also climate.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kla?m/
- Rhymes: -a?m
- Homophone: climb
Noun
clime (countable and uncountable, plural climes)
- A particular region defined by its weather or climate.
- After working hard all of his life, Max retired to warmer climes in Florida.
- 1764, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller, or a Prospect of Society, page 9:
- My ?oul turn from them, turn we to ?urvey
Where rougher climes a nobler race di?play,
- My ?oul turn from them, turn we to ?urvey
- Climate.
- A change of clime was exactly what the family needed.
Anagrams
- melic
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ascend
English
Etymology
From Middle English ascenden, borrowed from Old French ascendre, from Latin ascend? (“to go up, climb up to”), from ad (“to”) + scand? (“to climb”); see scan. Unrelated to accede other than common ad prefix.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??s?nd/
- Rhymes: -?nd
- Hyphenation: as?cend
Verb
ascend (third-person singular simple present ascends, present participle ascending, simple past and past participle ascended)
- (intransitive) To move upward, to fly, to soar.
- He ascended to heaven upon a cloud.
- (intransitive) To slope in an upward direction.
- (transitive) To go up.
- You ascend the stairs and take a right.
- (transitive) To succeed.
- She ascended the throne when her mother abdicated.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.
- To trace, search or go backwards temporally (e.g., through records, genealogies, routes, etc.).
- Our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity.
- (transitive, music) To become higher in pitch.
Antonyms
- descend
Related terms
- ascent
- ascendant
- ascendance
- ascendancy/ascendency
- ascending
- ascender
- ascension
- transcend
Translations
See also
- climb
Further reading
- ascend in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- ascend in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Dances, dances, decans, descan
French
Verb
ascend
- third-person singular present indicative of ascendre
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