Word.ws English Dictionary

rally round

rally round verb: to unite in order to support a fellow group member.

Verb

rally round (third-person singular simple present rallies round, present participle rallying round, simple past and past participle rallied round)

  1. (idiomatic) To unite in order to support a fellow group member.
    Synonyms:
    rally around

Synonyms of rally round

Forms of rally round

third-person singular presentrallies round
present participlerallying round
past participlerallied round
pastrallied round

Words formed from rally round

Questions about rally round

What does rally round mean?
Rally round means to unite in order to support a fellow group member.
What part of speech is rally round?
Rally round is a verb.
What is the past tense of rally round?
The past tense of rally round is rallied round.

Words near rally round in the dictionary

  1. rally cap
  2. rally caps
  3. rally cries
  4. rally cry
  5. rally English
  6. rally round
  7. rally round the flag
  8. rally towel
  9. rally-cap
  10. rally-caps
  11. rallycross

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rally round (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: En-au-rally round.ogg.

Cite this entry: “rally round.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/rally_round. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.