Rally

Quick meaning: Rally is a noun meaning A public gathering or mass meeting that is not mainly a protest and is organized to inspire enthusiasm for a cause.

Meaning

A public gathering or mass meeting that is not mainly a protest and is organized to inspire enthusiasm for a cause.

More Meanings

1. A protest or demonstration for or against something, but often with speeches and often without marching, especially in North America.
2. (squash, table tennis, tennis, badminton) A sequence of strokes between serving and scoring a point.
3. (business, trading) A recovery after a decline in prices (said of the market, stocks, etc.)
4. (transitive) To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
5. (intransitive) To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble.
6. (ambitransitive) To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness.
7. (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.

Example Sentences

a campaign rally

an election rally

a political rally

The Grecians rally, and their powers unite.

Word Forms

• rallies
• rallying
• rallied

Synonyms for rally

Depending on context, synonyms include unite, recuperate, rebound, cod, tease, twit.

Antonyms for rally

Common opposites include decline.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include summon, call up, mobilize, rebound, tease, tantalize.

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