Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
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;
[syn: Assumption, Assumption of Mary, August 15]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Assumption of Mary
n 1: 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 [syn: Assumption, Assumption of Mary, August
15]