rising
advancing or becoming higher or greater in degree or value or status
How often you will meet it
Rank 970 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 18,860 times across 175,113 chapters — 0.009% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
adjective
- advancing or becoming higher or greater in degree or value or status a rising trenda rising market
- sloping upward also: acclivitous, uphill
- coming to maturity also: emerging the rising generation
- newly come into prominence a rising young politician
noun
- a movement upward also: rise, ascent, ascension they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon
- organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another also: rebellion, insurrection, revolt, uprising
rising in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Mrs. Wiggs's spirits were rising every minute.
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch · Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice · Chapter 1
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The tide rising and letting in to shore.
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures · Daniel Defoe · Chapter 1
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To quell the rising clamor; Order! order! order!
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870 · Various · Chapter 1
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Like the rising tide, the Prussians spread and advanced, slowly, but steadily.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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Agitated by a light breeze, they glistened in the rays of the rising sun.
Piccolissima · Adélaïde de Montgolfier · Chapter 1