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English

Noun

rite (plural rites)

• A religious custom.
• (by extension) A prescribed behavior.
  • ✤ It was the capable manager’s long-established custom to escort Mrs Pridger to a theatre once a week, and Saturday evening had come to be the occasion of this rite.¹
  • ✤ But he had to perform the rites of hospitality, had to behave politely to his ally.²

Adjective

rite (not comparable)

• Informal spelling of right.
  • ✤ He’s rite, you know.

Adverb

rite (not comparable)

• Informal spelling of right.
  • ✤ It’s rite next to my house.
  • ✤ One of our cats has a bald spot on his hind & it looks like it was shaved rite off.³

Interjection

rite

• Informal spelling of right.
  • ✤ * Rite, let’s do it.*

Noun

rite (plural rites)

• Informal spelling of right.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ɹaɪt/
• Audio (General American): 🔊
• Homophones: right, wright, Wright, write
• Rhymes: -aɪt

Etymology 1

Via Middle English and Old French, from Latin ritus.

Etymology 2

Variation of right.

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Footnotes

1. 1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries: ↩

2. 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN: ↩

3. 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure ↩