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riser.

Someone or something which rises.

5 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈɹaɪ.zə(ɹ)/UK
  1. Someone or something which rises.

  2. A platform or stand used to lift or elevate something.

    The choir stood on risers for the performance.
  3. A vertical part of a step on a staircase.

  4. The main body of a bow.

  5. A vertical utility conduit, pipe or path between floors of a building for placement of cables (e.g. telephone, networking), or to convey fluids (e.g. gas, water).

  6. A pipe connecting an individual exhaust port of an internal combustion engine to the muffler, particularly on aircraft.

  7. A Manx cat with a showable short tail.

  8. A strip of webbing joining a parachute's harness to the rigging lines.

  9. A reservoir built into a metal casting mold to prevent the formation of cavities in the casting as the metal shrinks on cooling.

  10. An erection of the penis.

    colloquial · countable
  11. An audio effect that gradually increases in frequency, pitch, or volume.

Where this word comes from

From Middle English ryser, risere, equivalent to rise + -er.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.