Rouse vs Cheer - What's the difference?

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Rouse is a related term of cheer.

As a proper noun rouse

is .

As a noun cheer is

land, country, state, territory, shore.

rouse

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) reuser, ruser, originally used in English of hawks shaking the feathers of the body. Figurative meaning "to stir up, provoke to activity" is from 1580s; that of "awaken" is first recorded 1590s.

Alternative forms

* rouze (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)

an arousal

(military, British, and, Canada) The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse .

Verb

(rous)

to wake or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.

to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions

* Atterbury

to rouse up a people, the most phlegmatic of any in Christendom

* Shakespeare

Night's black agents to their preys do rouse .

* Alexander Pope

Morpheus rouses from his bed.

(senseid) To provoke (someone) to anger or action.

* Milton

Blustering winds, which all night long / Had roused the sea.

To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.

to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase

* Spenser

Like wild boars late roused out of the brakes.

* Alexander Pope

Rouse the fleet hart, and cheer the opening hound.

(nautical) To pull by main strength; to haul

(obsolete) To raise; to make erect.

(Spenser)

(Shakespeare)

Etymology 2

From carouse, from the phrase "drink carouse" being wrongly analyzed as "drink a rouse".

Noun

(en noun)

an official ceremony over drinks

And the King's rouse the heaven shall bruit again,

Re-speaking earthly thunder. - "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2 lines 127-128

A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.

* Tennyson

Fill the cup, and fill the can, / Have a rouse before the morn.

wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.

Anagrams

* English ergative verbs

cheer

English

Noun

(obsolete) The face.

*:And soo on the morne they were alle accorded that they shold departe eueryche from other / And on the morne they departed with wepynge chere / and euery kny?t took the way that hym lyked best

*, I.50:

*:Heraclitus taking pitie and compassion of the very same condition of ours, was continually seene with a sad, mournfull, and heavie cheere , and with teares trickling downe his blubbered eyes.

(obsolete) One's expression or countenance.

*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , V.7:

*:‘thorough evill rest of this last night, / Or ill apayd or much dismayd ye be; / That by your change of cheare is easie for to see.’

(archaic) One's attitude, mood.

*1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) VI:

*:And anon he talked with them, and sayde unto them: be of good chere , it is I, be not afrayed.

*Holinshed

*:The parentsfled away with heavy cheer .

(uncountable) A cheerful attitude; gaiety; mirth.

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:I have not that alacrity of spirit, / Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have.

That which promotes good spirits or cheerfulness; provisions prepared for a feast; entertainment.

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A cry expressing joy, approval or support such as "hurray".

* (1809-1892)

*:Welcome her, thundering cheer of the street.

A chant made in support of a team at a sports event.

Synonyms

* See also

Verb

To gladden; to make cheerful; often with up .

We were cheered by the offer of a cup of tea.

To infuse life, courage, animation, or hope, into; to inspirit; to solace or comfort.

* Dryden

The proud he tamed, the penitent he cheered .

(ambitransitive) To applaud or encourage with cheers or shouts.

The crowd cheered in support of the athletes.

The crowd cheered the athletes.

Derived terms

* cheerful * cheer on * cheers * cheer up * cheery * in good cheer * wotcher