Definitions for rite

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Spelling: [rahyt]

IPA: /raɪt/

Rite is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in rite (eirt).

Definitions for rite

noun

1. a formal or ceremonial act or procedure prescribed or customary in religious or other solemn use:
2. a particular form or system of religious or other ceremonial practice:
3. (often initial capital letter) a liturgy or liturgical system, especially one of the historical versions of the Eucharistic service:
4. (sometimes initial capital letter) Eastern Church, Western Church. a division or differentiation of churches based on liturgical practice.
5. any customary observance or practice:

Origin of rite

1275-1325; Middle English (Old French rit(e)) Latin rītus

Examples for rite

They are going up to the city for the Mohammedan rite of circumcision.

I believe it is the place where the rite of circumcision is performed.

For anyone whose political sympathies lie left of center, discovering and reading Chomsky is a rite of passage.

I will yield nothing, whether in discipline, or in rite, or in dogma.

In the neighborhoods they grow up in, prison is a rite of passage and being a street gangster is a viable career choice.

Walgreens and rite Aid—seeing the glowing publicity CVS is benefitting from—will quickly follow suit.

All his people had gathered in a loose circle, as though attending a rite.

A rite of passage solely reserved for adolescent girls, the painful custom is believed to be as old as the local creation myth.

Doing well at the Gridiron is a rite of passage that not everybody survives.

Therefore the solemn process, rite, and ceremony of purification had to be performed.