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单词 anabasis
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Definition of anabasis in English:

anabasis

nounPlural anabasesaˈnabəsɪsəˈnabəsəs
rare
  • A military advance into the interior of a country (with reference to that of Cyrus the Younger into Asia in 401 BC, as narrated by Xenophon in his work Anabasis).

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The great resources of military manpower remaining are reflected in accounts of the famous procession mounted by him at Daphne, prior to his anabasis to the ‘Upper Satrapies’, a major military campaign, in which he met his death.
    • Seleucus then undertook an anabasis to regain Parthia, the results of which came to nothing.

Origin

From Greek, 'ascent', from anabainein 'walk up', from ana- 'up' + bainein 'go'.

 
 

Definition of anabasis in US English:

anabasis

nounəˈnabəsəs
rare
  • 1A march from a coast into the interior, as that of the younger Cyrus into Asia in 401 BC, as narrated by Xenophon in his work Anabasis.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The great resources of military manpower remaining are reflected in accounts of the famous procession mounted by him at Daphne, prior to his anabasis to the ‘Upper Satrapies’, a major military campaign, in which he met his death.
    • Seleucus then undertook an anabasis to regain Parthia, the results of which came to nothing.
    1. 1.1 A military advance.

Origin

From Greek, ‘ascent’, from anabainein ‘walk up’, from ana- ‘up’ + bainein ‘go’.

 
 
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