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anabasis

American  
[uh-nab-uh-sis] / əˈnæb ə sɪs /

noun

plural

anabases

  1. a march from the coast into the interior, as that of Cyrus the Younger against Artaxerxes II, described by Xenophon in his historical work Anabasis (379–371 b.c.).

  2. Literary. any military expedition or advance.

anabasis British  
/ əˈnæbəsɪs /

noun

  1. the march of Cyrus the Younger and his Greek mercenaries from Sardis to Cunaxa in Babylonia in 401 bc , described by Xenophon in his Anabasis Compare katabasis

  2. any military expedition, esp one from the coast to the interior

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Etymology

Origin of anabasis

1700–10; < Greek: a stepping up. See ana-, basis

Example Sentences

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A comparable feat would have been for Mexican revolutionists, defeated in Yucatan, to move their capital to British Columbia�except that the Mexicans would have far better roads for their anabasis.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English by Hawthorne, Julian

The vast anabasis to Moscow had emanated from a people not conspicuously careful of public morality.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 by Various

T. Very well; a noun substantive, now what is the verb that anabasis is derived from?

From The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by Newman, John Henry

I begin to believe her story, and even to understand how she has carried through this amazing anabasis.

From True Tilda by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

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