rise – English noun declension

English noun forms of rise

Noun: rise
Singularrise
Pluralrises

Sample Sentences

  • The rise of the tide.
  • There was a rise of nearly two degrees since yesterday.
  • Exercise is usually accompanied by a temporary rise in blood pressure.
  • The war also triggered a number of forest fires that led to a 113% rise in emissions, according to the Initiative on GHG Accounting of War. [2025 November 20, Simmone Shah, “Ukraine to Claim $44bn in Climate Damages From Russia. Why War Is So Bad For Emissions”, in TIME, archived from the original on 08 Dec 2025:]
  • The rise of the working class.
  • The rise of the printing press.
  • The rise of the feminists.
  • The governor just gave me a rise of two pound six.
  • The rise of his pants was so low that his tailbone was exposed.
  • the land rolls gently, so that, upon cresting a low rise or passing a copse of wind turbines, you suddenly spot a lot full of lorries or a complex of gigantic sheds. [2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:]
  • I went along up the bank with one eye out for pap and t'other one out for what the rise might fetch along. [1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Chapter VII”, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:]
  • Making fun of their football team is one sure way to get a rise from a crowd.
  • She really got a rise from the audience when she donned a wig and talked like the president.
  • As the rise, i.e. height, of the arch decreases, the outward thrust increases.
  • Each step had a rise of 170 mm and a going of 250 mm.

Etymology

1. 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. Cognates
3. 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”). See: Old English Nouns 'rīsan', Latin Nouns 'orior', Ancient Greek Nouns 'ἔρις', Greek Nouns 'έριδα', Bulgarian Nouns 'ръст', Czech Nouns 'růst', Polish Nouns 'rost', Russian Nouns 'рост'.

Verbs referencing "rise"

Dutch Nouns reis, Latvian Nouns rīts.