rise
/ɹaɪz/ verb, noun, proper noun
Also a form of rice
Forms rises rising rose risen rised risest rosest riseth rize
- verb To move upwards. “We watched the balloon rise.”
- verb To grow upward; to attain a certain height. “This elm tree rises to a height of seventy feet.”
- verb To slope upward. “The path rises as you approach the foot of the hill.”
- verb (of a celestial body) To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation. “The sun was rising in the East.”
- verb To become erect; to assume an upright position. “to rise from a chair or from a fall”
- verb To leave one's bed; to get up.
- verb (figurative) To be resurrected. “he rose from the grave; he is risen!”
- verb (figurative) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn. “The committee rose after agreeing to the report.”
- noun The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater. “The rise of the tide.”
- noun The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence. “The rise of the working class.”
- noun (chiefly UK, also Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa) An increase in a quantity, price, etc.
- noun The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts. “The rise of his pants was so low that his tailbone was exposed.”
- noun The front of a diaper.
- noun (Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
- noun An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
- noun (informal) A very noticeable visible or audible reaction of a person or group. “Making fun of their football team is one sure way to get a rise from a crowd.”
- proper noun A surname.
Synonyms
climb go up arise be resurrected come back from the dead get up increase raise pay raise ascent ascension ascending acclivity upgrade rising wage hike hike wage increase salary increase rising slope lift emanation procession boost cost increase advance move up come up uprise stand up
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English risen, from Old English rīsan, from Proto-West Germanic *rīsan, from Proto-Germanic *rīsaną (“to rise”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rey- (“to arise, rise”). According to Kroonen (2013), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to rise, spring”). See also raise.
Cognate with Dutch rijzen (“to rise”), German reisen (“to fall”), Limburgish rieze (“to rise”), Faroese and Icelandic rísa (“to rise”), Norwegian Nynorsk risa, rise (“to rise”), Gothic *𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌽 (*reisan, “to rise”) (whence 𐌿𐍂𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌽 (urreisan, “to arise”)). Non-Germanic cognates include Cornish ardh (“height”), Irish arad, ard, árd (“high, tall”), Manx ard (“high, tall”), Scottish Gaelic àrd (“high”), Welsh ardd (“hill, upland”), Latin orior (“to rise”), Ancient Greek ἔρις (éris, “quarell, strife; contention, rivalry”) (whence Greek έριδα (érida, “feud”)), Albanian rashë (“to have fallen; to have flopped”), Bulgarian ръст (răst, “size; stature; growth”), Czech růst (“growth”), Macedonian раст (rast, “growth, height”), Polish rost, wzrost (“growth”), Russian рост (rost, “growth”), Serbo-Croatian ра̑ст, rȃst (“growth”), Slovene rȃst (“growth”), Old Armenian յառնեմ (yaṙnem, “to arise, rise”) (whence Armenian հառնել (haṙnel, “to rise up”)), Persian رمبیدن (rombidan, “to collapse”), Tocharian A ar- (“to evoke”), Tocharian B er- (“to evoke”), Hittite 𒀀𒊏𒀀𒄑𒍣 (arāwanzi, “to rise”), Sanskrit ऋ (ṛ, “to rise”).
From Middle English ris, rys, from Old English hrīs, from Proto-Germanic *hrīsą (“twig; shoot”). More at rice.
Variant spelling of Rice.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird rises in the air; a fish rises to the bait.
- verb To have the aspect or the effect of rising. Specifically: -- (a) To appear above the horizont, as the sun, moon, stars, and the like. "He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and the good." Matt. v. 45.
- noun The act of rising, or the state of being risen.
- noun The distance through which anything rises; as, the rise of the thermometer was ten degrees; the rise of the river was six feet; the rise of an arch or of a step.
Etymology [AS. risan; akin to OS. risan, D. rijzen, OHG. risan to rise, fall, Icel. risa, Goth. urreisan, G. reise journey. CF. Arise, Raise, Rear, v.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “rise”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details