rally

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹæli/

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• Rhymes: -æli
• Hyphenation: ral‧ly

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

rally (plural rallies)

1. 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

2. A protest or demonstration for or against something, but often with speeches and often without marching, especially in North America.

   a political rally

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.)

• (increase in value): dead cat bounce

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.

   Synonym: muster

2. To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble.

   Synonym: unite

   • 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious:

     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 403869432:

     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.

3. 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 21345056, 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.

4. (business, trading, of the market, stocks etc.) 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.

• rally round the flag
• rallying point

From French railler. See rail (“to scoff”).

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

1. (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 191120697:

     Honeycomb […] rallies me after his way upon my country life.

   • 1713, [John] Gay, “Book I”, in The Fan. A Poem. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1714, OCLC 1325897847, 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. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], OCLC 18952474:

     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.

rally (uncountable)

1. Good-humoured raillery.

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

• Ryall

Borrowed from Spanish rally, from English rally.

• IPA^(key): /rali/, [ra.li]

rally inan

1. (motor racing) rally

• "rally" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus

rally f

1. rally (motor racing event)

• rallye f

Unadapted borrowing from English rally.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛl.li/, /relˈli/^**[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛlli, -i

rally m (invariable)

1. rally event involving groups of people

From English rally.

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

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

• “rally” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From English rally.

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

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

• “rally” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

rally m (plural rallys)

1. Alternative spelling of rali

Unadapted borrowing from English rally.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrali/ [ˈra.li]
• Rhymes: -ali

rally m (plural rallys)

1. (motor racing) rally

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.

• “rally”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

rally n

1. (motor racing) rally

• rally in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• rally in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• rally in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)