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anabasis

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Scrabble points
10
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12
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/əˈnæbəsɪs/ (UK)

Definition of anabasis

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (historical)A military march up-country, especially that of Cyrus the Younger into Asia.
    “During the French anabasis to Moscow he entered our service, made himself a prodigious favorite with the whole imperial family, and even now is only in his twenty−second year.”
    “‘I have a feeling that if we follow a scent of spring on the air with sufficient eagerness we’ll come to a south without snow more quickly than we think. Thalassa, thalassa. This is what the Greeks called an anabasis.’ They looked at him as if he were barmy.”
    “The Wordsworthian journey to the source […] is more of an amble than an anabasis or strenuous heroic quest.”
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noun

  1. (historical)A military march up-country, especially that of Cyrus the Younger into Asia.
    “During the French anabasis to Moscow he entered our service, made himself a prodigious favorite with the whole imperial family, and even now is only in his twenty−second year.”
    “‘I have a feeling that if we follow a scent of spring on the air with sufficient eagerness we’ll come to a south without snow more quickly than we think. Thalassa, thalassa. This is what the Greeks called an anabasis.’ They looked at him as if he were barmy.”
    “The Wordsworthian journey to the source […] is more of an amble than an anabasis or strenuous heroic quest.”
  2. (obsolete)The first period, or increase, of a disease; augmentation.

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀνάβασις (anábasis, “a going up, an ascent”), from ἀναβαίνω (anabaínō), from ᾰ̓νᾰ- (ănă-, “up”) + βαίνω (baínō, “to go”). Compare typologically Proto-West Germanic *raisu (“a travel, journey”) (akin to Proto-Germanic *raizijaną (“to cause (someone, something) to rise; raise”)) (<< Proto-Indo-European *h₁rey- (“to rise, arise”)).

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