Definition

Noun: 1. A person who wakes others up: Someone whose role or action is to rouse or awaken other people from sleep. 2. A person who stirs or excites others: Someone who stimulates, incites, or arouses people to action, emotion, or awareness.

Usage Examples

• The camp rouser walked through the cabins at dawn, banging a pot to wake everyone up.
• He was a powerful orator and a rouser of public sentiment against the injustice.
• The alarm clock is a reliable but impersonal rouser.

Advanced Usage

• "A rouser of rabble": A person who stirs up or incites a crowd, often with a negative connotation of causing unrest.
  • The politician was accused of being a rouser of rabble rather than a thoughtful leader.
• The term can be used metaphorically for anything that stirs strong feelings.
  • The documentary was a rouser of conscience for many viewers.

Variants and Related Words

• Rouse (verb): To wake someone up; to stir or provoke a feeling or action.
• Arouser (noun): A less common synonym with a very similar meaning.
• Waker (noun): A person or thing that wakes someone, though this is less specific than .

Synonyms

• Waker
• Arouser
• Inciter
• Agitator (when meaning one who stirs up people)
• Provocateur (when meaning one who stirs up people)

Related Phrasal Verbs/Constructions

• To rouse from: To awaken or stir someone from a state (e.g., sleep, apathy).
  • It was difficult to rouse him from his deep slumber.
• To rouse to: To stir someone to a particular action or feeling.
  • The speech roused the crowd to anger.

Related Idioms

• "A rouser of a speech": An idiom describing a speech that is exceptionally stirring, exciting, or emotionally powerful.
  • The coach gave a real rouser of a speech at halftime, and the team came back to win.

Noun

1. someone who rouses others from sleep