Word.ws English Dictionary

rising through the ranks

rising through the ranks is the present participle and gerund of rise through the ranks.

Meaning of rise through the ranks

Verb

rise through the ranks (third-person singular simple present rises through the ranks, present participle rising through the ranks, simple past rose through the ranks, past participle risen through the ranks)

  1. To gradually advance in an organization to positions of more importance after having served in subordinate ones.
    • Near-synonym: rise from the ranks
    Synonyms:
    rise from the ranks

Questions about rising through the ranks

What is rising through the ranks the present participle and gerund of?
Rising through the ranks is the present participle and gerund of rise through the ranks.

Words near rising through the ranks in the dictionary

  1. Rising Star Cave
  2. rising stars
  3. Rising Sun
  4. rising three
  5. rising threes
  6. rising through the ranks
  7. rising to the bait
  8. rising to the challenge
  9. rising to the occasion
  10. rising to the purple
  11. rising tone

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rising through the ranks (page history and authors); rise through the ranks (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:

Cite this entry: “rising through the ranks.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/rising_through_the_ranks. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.