Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. A public gathering or mass meeting that is not mainly a protest and is organized to inspire enthusiasm for a cause.
2. A protest or demonstration for or against something, but often with speeches and often without marching, especially in North America.
3. (squash, table tennis, tennis, badminton) A sequence of strokes between serving and scoring a point.
4. (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.
5. (business, trading) A recovery after a decline in prices (said of the market, stocks, etc.)
6. (transitive) To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
7. (intransitive) To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble.
8. (ambitransitive) To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness.

Example Sentences

a campaign rally

an election rally

a political rally

The EDL said Saturday’s rally was aimed at highlighting what it describes as a “continued increase in Islamic terrorism” linked to Birmingham.

Mortenson, who asked to use a pseudonym for this story, says she has been attending rallies and vigils in her home state to regain her optimism, but she’s finding it tough.

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

The Grecians rally, and their powers unite.

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.

Word Forms

• rallies
• rallying
• rallied

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