Meaning & Definition of Rise in English

1. A growth in strength or number or importance

2. The act of changing location in an upward direction

3. An upward slope or grade (as in a road)

• "The car couldn't make it up the rise"

4. A movement upward

• "They cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon"

5. The amount a salary is increased

• "He got a 3% raise"

• "He got a wage hike"

6. The property possessed by a slope or surface that rises

7. A wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground

8. (theology) the origination of the holy spirit at pentecost

• "The emanation of the holy spirit"

• "The rising of the holy ghost"

• "The doctrine of the procession of the holy spirit from the father and the son"

9. An increase in cost

• "They asked for a 10% rise in rates"

10. Increase in price or value

• "The news caused a general advance on the stock market"

1. Move upward

• "The fog lifted"

• "The smoke arose from the forest fire"

• "The mist uprose from the meadows"

2. Increase in value or to a higher point

• "Prices climbed steeply"

• "The value of our house rose sharply last year"

3. Rise to one's feet

• "The audience got up and applauded"

4. Rise up

• "The building rose before them"

5. Come to the surface

6. Come into existence

• Take on form or shape

• "A new religious movement originated in that country"

• "A love that sprang up from friendship"

• "The idea for the book grew out of a short story"

• "An interesting phenomenon uprose"

7. Move to a better position in life or to a better job

• "She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great

8. Go up or advance

• "Sales were climbing after prices were lowered"

9. Become more extreme

• "The tension heightened"

10. Get up and out of bed

• "I get up at 7 a.m. every day"

• "They rose early"

• "He uprose at night"

11. Rise in rank or status

• "Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list"

12. Become heartened or elated

• "Her spirits rose when she heard the good news"

13. Exert oneself to meet a challenge

• "Rise to a challenge"

• "Rise to the occasion"

14. Take part in a rebellion

• Renounce a former allegiance

15. Increase in volume

• "The dough rose slowly in the warm room"

16. Come up, of celestial bodies

• "The sun also rises"

• "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."

• "Jupiter ascends"

17. Return from the dead

• "Christ is risen!"

• "The dead are to uprise"