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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle French rallier (French rallier), from Old French ralier, from Latin prefix re- + ad + ligare (“to bind; to ally”).
Noun
rally (plural rallies)
- A public gathering or mass meeting that is not mainly a protest and is organized to inspire enthusiasm for a cause.
a campaign rally
an election rally
- A protest or demonstration for or against something, but often with speeches and often without marching, especially in North America.
a political rally
- (squash, table tennis, tennis, badminton) A sequence of strokes between serving and scoring a point.
- (motor racing) An event in which competitors drive through a series of timed special stages at intervals. The winner is the driver who completes all stages with the shortest cumulative time.
- (business, trading) A recovery after a decline in prices (said of the market, stocks, etc.)
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
public gathering for a cause
- Arabic: تَجَمُّع m (tajammuʕ), مُظَاهَرَة f (muẓāhara), تَظَاهُر f (taẓāhur)
- Armenian: ցույց (hy) (cʻuycʻ), հանրահավաք (hy) (hanrahavakʻ)
- Azerbaijani: mitinq
- Belarusian: мі́тынг m (mítynh)
- Bulgarian: ми́тинг (bg) m (míting)
- Burmese: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: míting m, comicis (ca) m pl
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 集會/集会 (zh) (jíhuì), 大會/大会 (zh) (dàhuì)
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: kokoontuminen (fi), puhetilaisuus; mielenosoitus (fi) (demonstration)
- French: rassemblement (fr) m, meeting (fr) m; demonstration: manifestation (fr) f
- Galician: mitin (gl) m
- Georgian: მასობრივი მიტინგი (masobrivi miṭingi), მიტინგი (miṭingi)
- German: Kundgebung (de) f
- Greek: συγκέντρωση (el) f (sygkéntrosi); demonstration: πολιτική συγκέντρωση f (politikí sygkéntrosi), διαδήλωση (el) f (diadílosi)
- Hebrew: עֲצֶרֶת (he) f ('atséret)
- Hungarian: tüntetés (hu)
- Italian: raduno (it) m; demonstration: manifestazione (it) f
- Japanese: 大会 (ja) (たいかい, taikai), 集会 (ja) (しゅうかい, shūkai)
- Khmer: ហែក្បួន (hae-kbuən)
- Korean: 대회(大會) (ko) (daehoe), 집회(集會) (ko) (jiphoe)
- Latin: contiō f; demonstration: concursus populi m, protestatio popularis f
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Persian: تظاهرات (fa) (tazâhorât), راهپیمایی (râhpeymâyi)
- Polish: wiec (pl) m, manifestacja (pl) f
- Portuguese: comício (pt) m
- Romanian: please add this translation if you can
- Russian: ми́тинг (ru) m (míting)
- Slovak: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: mitin (es) m
- Swedish: samling (sv) c, massmöte n; demonstration: demonstration (sv) c
- Thai: การชุมนุม (th) (gaan-chum-num)
- Turkish: miting (tr)
- Ukrainian: мі́тинг m (mítynh)
- Uzbek: miting (uz)
- Vietnamese: cuộc vận động (vi), mít tinh (vi) (colloquial)
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tennis: sequence of strokes
a recovery after a decline in prices
Verb
rally (third-person singular simple present rallies, present participle rallying, simple past and past participle rallied)
- (transitive) To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
- Synonym: muster
- (intransitive) To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble.
- Synonym: unite
1664, John Tillotson, “Sermon I. The Wisdom of Being Religious. Job XXVIII. 28.”, in The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: , 8th edition, London: T. Goodwin, B Tooke, and J. Pemberton, ; J. Round , and J Tonson] , published 1720, →OCLC:Innumerable parts of matter chanced just then to rally together, and to form themselves into this new world.
1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. , London: Jacob Tonson, , →OCLC:The Grecians rally, and their powers unite.
2019 July 2, Louise Taylor, “Alex Morgan heads USA past England into Women’s World Cup final”, in The Guardian:The USA were dominant but, to England’s immense credit, they repeatedly rallied, refusing to fold. Indeed they could conceivably have gone in level at the interval had Naeher not made an acrobatic, stretching, fingertip save to divert Walsh’s 25-yard thunderbolt as it whizzed unerringly on its apparently inexorable trajectory towards the top corner.
- (transitive, intransitive) To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness.
- Synonym: recuperate
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. , volume II, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, pages 40–41:Norbourne was almost thankful for any excuse that enabled him to avoid seeing Lady Marchmont. In vain he sought to rally his spirits, and to conceal his depression; but the idea of Ethel mocked his efforts to forget.
- (business, trading, of the market, stocks etc., intransitive) To recover strength after a decline in prices.
- Synonyms: bounce back, rebound
- Antonym: decline
2022 December 14, Nils Pratley, “Bitcoin has rallied. What are crypto’s true believers still smoking?”, in The Guardian:Bitcoin has still plunged in value by almost two-thirds this year, it should be said. But it has also rallied by about 10% since the downwards lurch when FTX filed for bankruptcy in mid-November, which is extraordinary.
Derived terms
Translations
to collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion
to come into orderly arrangement
to collect one's vital powers or forces
to recover strength after a decline in prices
Etymology 2
From French railler. See rail (“to scoff”).
Verb
rally (third-person singular simple present rallies, present participle rallying, simple past and past participle rallied)
- (transitive) To tease; to chaff good-humouredly.
1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, II.iii:But you must not rally him on the subject Sir Oliver—'tis a tender Point I assure you though He has been married only seven months.
1711 August 11 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “TUESDAY, July 31, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 132; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, , volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:Honeycomb […] rallies me after his way upon my country life.
1713, [John] Gay, “Book I”, in The Fan. A Poem. , 2nd edition, London: J Tonson, , published 1714, →OCLC, page 5:Strephon had long confeſs'd his am'rous Pain, / VVhich gay Corinna railly'd vvith Diſdain: […]
1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Church-yard. , volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Tinsley, Brothers, , →OCLC:So the athletic Magnolia instantly impounded the little lieutenant, and began to rally him, in the sort of slang she delighted in, with plenty of merriment and malice upon his tendre for Miss Chattesworth, and made the gallant young gentleman blush and occasionally smile, and bow a great deal, and take some snuff.
Noun
rally (uncountable)
- Good-humoured raillery.
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Anagrams
Basque
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish rally, from English rally.
Pronunciation
Noun
rally inan
- (motor racing) rally
Declension
Declension of rally (inanimate, ending in vowel)
Further reading
- "rally" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia , euskaltzaindia.eus
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
rally f (indeclinable)
- rally (motor racing event)
- Synonym: rallye f
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English rally.
Pronunciation
Noun
rally m (invariable)
- rally event involving groups of people
References
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From English rally.
Noun
rally n (definite singular rallyet, indefinite plural rally or rallyer, definite plural rallya or rallyene)
- a rally (e.g. in motor sport)
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From English rally.
Noun
rally n (definite singular rallyet, indefinite plural rally, definite plural rallya)
- a rally (e.g. in motor sport)
References
Portuguese
Noun
rally m (plural rallys)
- Alternative spelling of rali
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English rally.
Pronunciation
Noun
rally m (plural rallys)
- (motor racing) rally
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
Swedish
Noun
rally n
- (motor racing) rally
Declension
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