• the act of taking possession of or power over something; "his Assumption of office coincided with the trouble in Cuba"; "the Nazi Assumption of power in 1934"; "he acquired all the company''s assets for ten million dollars and the Assumption of the compan
• the act of assuming or taking for granted; "your Assumption that I would agree was unwarranted"
• audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to; "he despised them for their presumptuousness"
• a hypothesis that is taken for granted; "any society is built upon certain Assumptions"
• a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn; "on the Assumption that he has been injured we can infer that he will not to play"
• (Christianity) the taking up of the body and soul of the Virgin Mary when her earthly life had ended
• celebration in the Roman Catholic Church of the Virgin Mary''s being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended; corresponds to the Dormition in the Eastern Orthodox church

'Assumption' in other languages