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anabases

anabases is the plural of anabasis.

Meaning of anabasis

Noun

anabasis (plural anabases)

  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.1838, Thomas de Quincey, The Avenger
  2. (obsolete) The first period, or increase, of a disease; augmentation.

Questions about anabases

What is anabases the plural of?
Anabases is the plural of anabasis.

Words near anabases in the dictionary

  1. anabaptized
  2. anabaptizes
  3. anabaptizing
  4. anabas
  5. anabaseine
  6. anabases
  7. anabasii
  8. anabasine
  9. anabasis
  10. anabasius
  11. anabathrid

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