Usually means: Ceremonial acts with symbolic meaning.
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  1. rites: Merriam-Webster
  2. rites: Collins English Dictionary
  3. rites: Vocabulary.com
  4. Rites, rites: Wordnik
  5. rites: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. rites: Wiktionary
  7. Rites: Dictionary.com
  8. rites: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. RITES, Rites (album), Rites (magazine), Rites: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Rites: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Rites: Legal dictionary

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  1. RITES: Acronym Finder

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  1. rites: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (rite)

noun:  A religious custom.
noun:  (by extension) A prescribed behavior.
adjective:  Informal spelling of right. [Designating the side of the body which is positioned to the east if one is facing north, the side on which the heart is not located in most humans. This arrow points to the reader's right: →]
adverb:  Informal spelling of right. [On the right side.]
noun:  Informal spelling of right. [That which complies with justice, law or reason.]
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