emprise

em·prise

noun \em-ˈprīz\

Definition of EMPRISE

: an adventurous, daring, or chivalric enterprise

Examples of EMPRISE

1. <he always seems to be having the sort of high emprise that most of us experience only in our dreams>

Origin of EMPRISE

Middle English, undertaking, from Anglo-French, from emprendre to undertake, from Vulgar Latin *imprehendere, from Latin in- + prehendere to seize — more at get

First Known Use: 13th century

Related to EMPRISE

Synonyms: adventure, experience, exploit, gest (or geste), happening, time

Related Words: escapade, lark, ploy; act, action, deed, doing, feat; episode, occasion; baptism, ordeal, test, trial, tribulation; enterprise, risk, venture; expedition, exploration, mission, performance, quest, stunt

Near Antonyms: bore, bummer, bust, downer, drag

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Rhymes with EMPRISE

abscise, advise, apprise, apprize, arise, assize, baptize, bite-size, breadthwise, capsize, chastise, clockwise, coastwise, cognize, comprise, crabwise, crack wise, crosswise, demise, despise, devise, disguise, disprize, door prize, downsize, earthrise, edgewise, endwise, excise, fanwise, franchise, full-size, grecize, high-rise, incise, king-size, leastwise, lengthwise, Levi's, life-size, likewise, low-rise, man-size, mid-rise, midsize, misprize, moonrise, nowise, outsize, piecewise, pint-size, premise, quantize, queen-size, remise, reprise, revise, rightsize, slantwise, streetwise, stylize, suffice, sunrise, surmise, surprise, trim size, twin-size, unwise, uprise