RISEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does risen mean? 

• RISEN (adjective)
  The adjective RISEN has 1 sense:

1. (of e.g. celestial bodies) above the horizon

  Familiarity information: RISEN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RISEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of e.g. celestial bodies) above the horizon

Context example:

the risen sun

Similar:

up (being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level)

 Context examples 

She had risen, but she fell back again with a little cry of pain.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A vision, as it seemed to me, had risen at his side.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have risen in a few months, over several heads.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

By this time the sun had risen, and we were all in the full light of day.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He, too, had risen, and he stood facing her, where she had paused at the door of her room, as he went on: (...)

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Yet he could have risen high if he wanted to.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Had anyone else come in, the family would certainly have risen from the table.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And the odds ’ave risen to ten to one.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a very dark night, as the moon had not yet risen; they did not land at the harbour, but, as they had been accustomed, at a creek about two miles below.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)