to rise early
- phrasal verb
- /raɪz ˈɜrli/
- She decided to rise early for her morning jog to avoid the heat of the day.
- rise early in the morning
Examples
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"We know you have to rise early, and work late, with not enough sleep in between."
Blog text (11) -
To go there, I rise early.
Fiction book (1998) -
The day after Christmas, we rose early, packed the car, and struck out for Chicago, hoping to make it back in one day.
Academic text (2007) -
Jacy rose early the next morning, even before Jake was up.
Fiction book (1994) -
One winter morning, after rising early to get her children off to school, Jane paused by the kitchen sink.
Academic text (2011) -
On Saturday mornings, we rose early to shop around in the southside junkyards.
Academic text (1990) -
In the morning, we rose early and went to the Café du Monde for coffee and beignets.
Fiction book (1995) -
On weekends, I like to rise early to enjoy the quiet morning before the rest of the house wakes up.
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To catch the sunrise, they set their alarms to rise early and went to the beach.
Synonyms
To rise from bed early in the morning
Get up from bed, a chair, or the floor
To get out of bed, usually early in the morning
Awake and active very early in the morning
Wake up very early in the morning, often at sunrise
Get up very early at sunrise
Wake very early in the morning, often before dawn
Get up very early before sunrise
Antonyms
How Early
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to get out of bed or wake up early' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'rise' (to get up) with 'early' (before the usual time). This verb + adverb composition follows a common, cross-linguistic pattern and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Rise early comes from the simple image of rising with the sun at dawn, like farmers or roosters who wake when daylight comes. That's why it means 'to get out of bed' or wake up early.