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Word: Anabasis
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
from Greek, ‘ascent’, from anabainein ‘walk up’, from ana- ‘up’ + bainein ‘go’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
əˈnabəsɪs
Dialects: British English
Definition:
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).
Short Definition:military advance into interior of country
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