rise to power

1. 1.

   the act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne)

   “Elizabeth's accession in 1558”

   Synonymsaccession

   Broaderattainment

Questions about rise to power

What does rise to power mean?

rise to power means "the act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne)".

What is another word for rise to power?

Close synonyms include accession. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rise to power a common word?

rise to power is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.