rally

English Online Dictionary. What means rally‎? What does rally mean?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹæ.li/
• Rhymes: -æli

Etymology 1

From Old French ralier (French rallier), from Latin prefix re- + ad + ligare (“to bind; to ally”).

Noun

rally (plural rallies)

1. A demonstration; an event where people gather together to protest for or against a given cause
2. (squash (sport), table tennis, tennis, badminton) A sequence of strokes between serving and scoring a point.
3. (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.
4. (business, trading) A recovery after a decline in prices (said of the market, stocks, etc.)

Hyponyms

• (increase in value): dead cat bounce

Translations

Verb

rally (third-person singular simple present rallies, present participle rallying, simple past and past participle rallied)

1. To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
2. To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite.
   • Dryden

     The Grecians rally, and their powers unite.

   • Tillotson

     Innumerable parts of matter chanced just then to rally together, and to form themselves into this new world.

3. To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate.
4. (business, trading) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.

Synonyms

• (gather, unite, especially troops): muster
• (increase in value): bounce back, rebound

Antonyms

• (increase in value): decline

Derived terms

• rallying point

Translations

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)

1. (transitive) To tease; to chaff good-humouredly.
   • Addison

     Honeycomb […] raillies me upon a country life.

   • John Gay

     Strephon had long confessed his amorous pain / Which gay Corinna rallied with disdain.

   • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard

     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)

1. Good-humoured raillery.

References

• rally in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

• Ryall

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Czech

Noun

rally f

1. rally (motor racing event)

Synonyms

• rallye f

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Italian

Etymology

From English rally

Noun

rally m (invariable)

1. rally event involving groups of people

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English rally

Noun

rally n (definite singular rallyet, indefinite plural rally or rallyer, definite plural rallya or rallyene)

1. a rally (e.g. in motor sport)

References

• “rally” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English rally

Noun

rally n (definite singular rallyet, indefinite plural rally, definite plural rallya)

1. a rally (e.g. in motor sport)

References

• “rally” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Portuguese

Noun

rally m (plural rallys)

1. Alternative spelling of rali

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Spanish

Noun

rally m (plural rallys)

1. rally