Usually means: Ascending or increasing in position.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. rising: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rising: Merriam-Webster
  3. rising: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rising: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rising: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rising: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rising, rising: Wordnik
  8. rising: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Rising, rising: Wiktionary
  10. rising: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. rising: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. rising: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Rising, rising: Dictionary.com
  14. rising: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Rising: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. rising: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. rising: Rhymezone
  19. Rising: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. rising: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. rising: FreeDictionary.org
  22. rising: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. rising: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rising: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rising: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rising: Medical dictionary
  2. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. rising: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rising: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)

(Note: See rise as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Rebellion.
noun:  The act of something that rises.
noun:  (US, dated) A dough and yeast mixture which is allowed to ferment.
adjective:  Going up.
adjective:  Planned or destined to advance to an academic grade in the near future, after having completed the previous grade; soon-to-be.
adjective:  (heraldry, of a bird) Having its wings raised (either addorsed or sometimes displayed), standing on the tips of its feet as if about to take flight, typically depicted in profile.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Champaign County, Illinois, United States.

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