Other forms: rose, rising, rises, risen
To rise is to go up. The sun rises, smoke rises from a chimney, bread dough rises under a tea towel on a warm shelf.
It never takes an object, and that is the hardest thing about it. Things rise by themselves and you raise them: prices rise, the government raises taxes; the sun rises, you raise your hand. Rise also means to get up — rise early, rise from the table, a crowd rising to its feet. As a noun it is an increase: a rise in unemployment, a rise in fares, and in British English a pay rise, where Americans say a raise. A small hill is a rise in the ground. Give rise to means to cause, and rise to the occasion means to do better than expected when it counts.
1verbriseTo move upward.~2%
“Steam rises off the pan the moment the water hits it.”
Patternrise up · rise from + noun · the sun / smoke / dough rises · rise to the top · a rise in + noun
synonyms: go up, climb
2verbstrengthTo increase in number, level or strength.~21%
“House prices rise every spring and nobody knows why.”
3verbbedTo get up from bed or from sitting.~2%
“He rises at five every morning.”
4nounamountAn increase in an amount or level.~73%
“There has been a sharp rise in the number of cyclists.”
5nounpayAn increase in pay, in British English.~2%
“She asked for a rise and got it.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 11 sentences found in the wild and placed 9 of them on a sense (2 were unclear) — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
Also accepted in games: go up
RISE → the sun and the bread both go up
The sun rises in the morning, and so does the bread in a warm kitchen: slowly, going up.
Rise has been in English since before English was written down: Old English rīsan, from Proto-Germanic *rīsaną, to rise, from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning to arise or spring up. Raise is its close relative, and English kept both — one word for what goes up on its own, one for what you push up.
Proto-Indo-European
*h₁rey- — to arise, rise
Proto-Germanic
*rīsaną — to rise
Proto-West Germanic
*rīsan
Old English
rīsan
Middle English
risen
English, today
rise
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. 2 Cognate with Dutch rijzen (“to rise”), German reisen (“to fall”), li rieze (“to rise”), Faroese and Icelandic rísa (“to rise”), Norwegian Nynorsk risa, rise (“to rise”), Gothic 𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌽 (“to rise”) (whence 𐌿𐍂𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌽 (“to arise”)). Non-Germanic cognates include kw ardh (“height”), Irish arad, ard, árd (“high, tall”), gv ard (“high, tall”), Scottish Gaelic àrd (“high”), Welsh ardd (“hill, upland”), Latin orior (“to rise”), Ancient Greek ἔρις (“quarell, strife; contention, rivalry”) (whence Greek έριδα (“feud”)), Albanian rashë (“to have fallen; to have flopped”), Bulgarian ръст (“size; stature; growth”), Czech růst (“growth”), mk раст (“growth, height”), Polish rost, wzrost (“growth”), Russian рост (“growth”), Serbo-Croatian ра̑ст, rȃst (“growth”), Slovene rȃst (“growth”), xcl յառնեմ (“to arise, rise”) (whence Armenian հառնել (“to rise up”)), Persian رمبیدن (“to collapse”), xto ar- (“to evoke”), txb er- (“to evoke”), hit 𒀀𒊏𒀀𒄑𒍣 (“to rise”), Sanskrit ऋ (“to rise”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA