rite

Etymology 1

Via Middle English and Old French, from Latin ritus.

noun

  1. A religious custom.
  2. (by extension) A prescribed behavior.
    But he had to perform the rites of hospitality, had to behave politely to his ally. 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Etymology 2

Variation of right.

adj

  1. Informal spelling of right.
    He's rite, you know.

adv

  1. Informal spelling of right.
    It's rite next to my house.
    1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure One of our cats has a bald spot on his hind & it looks like it was shaved rite off.

intj

  1. Informal spelling of right.
    Rite, let's do it.

noun

  1. Informal spelling of right.
    1. used in unique spellings of company brand names
    2. part of the contraction and interjection amirite

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