Rice

• Rise, Wrice

• As a Welsh surname, borrowed from Welsh Rhys, an Anglicization. Compare Reese, Freese, Price, and Preece.
• As an English surname, from Old English hris (“brushwood, shrubbery”).
• Also as an English surname, from a nickname through Middle English and Anglo-Norman from French ris (“smile, laughter”).
• Also as an occupational English surname, from the noun rice.
• As as German surname, Americanized from Reis (“shoot, twig”), related to the Old English word above. Compare Ries.

• IPA^(key): /ɹaɪs/
• Rhymes: -aɪs
• Homophone: rice

Rice (countable and uncountable, plural Rices)

1. A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic].
   • 2015 March 4, Jill Jacobs, “Shmuley Boteach isn’t ‘America’s rabbi’”, in The Washington Post‎^[1], archived from the original on 29 April 2023:

     This past weekend, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach set off a firestorm with his full-page ad in the New York Times accusing National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice of turning a blind eye to the Rwandan genocide when she was on President Bill Clinton’s national security team in the 1990s.

   • 2019 September 13, Matthew Cappucci, “For the first time in 13 years, a full moon rises this Friday the 13th”, in The Washington Post‎^[2], archived from the original on 29 October 2020:

     For a micromoon and Friday the 13th full moon to occur together is extraordinarily rare. The last time it happened was in 1832 and it won't happen again for more than 500 years according to Tony Rice, a meteorologist and engineer at NASA.

2. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A former town in the Rice Valley, San Bernardino County, California.
   2. An unincorporated community in Cloud County, Kansas.
   3. A city in Benton County, Minnesota.
   4. An unincorporated community in Putnam County, Ohio.
   5. An unincorporated community in Wasco County, Oregon, named after Horace Rice.
   6. A minor city in Navarro County, Texas, named after William Marsh Rice.
   7. An unincorporated community in Prince Edward County, Virginia.
   8. An unincorporated community in Stevens County, Washington, named after William B. Rice.
   9. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Rice Township.

• Rice County

• ERIC, Eric, cire, eric, icer