rave

See also: Rave

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: rāv, IPA^(key): /ɹeɪv/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪv

Etymology 1

From Middle English raven (“to rave; talk like a madman”), from Old French raver, variant of resver, of uncertain origin. Compare rove.

Noun

rave (countable and uncountable, plural raves)

1. (informal, countable) An enthusiastic review (such as of a play).

   Synonym: raving review

   • 1989, The New York Times Theater Reviews, 1920-, volume 18, page 167:

     The first-night audience, yes. The first-night reviewers, not exactly. The notices have so far been mixed, only The Financial Times having delivered itself of an unequivocal rave.

2. An all-night dance party with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) in small unknown clubs.

   Synonym: rave-up

3. (music, uncountable) The genres of electronic dance music made to be played in rave parties.
   • 2009, Chrysalis Experiential Academy, Mind Harvesting, page 109:

     Maybe I wear baggies / And white socks with flip-flops / Maybe I don't like listening to rave / And I'm not on the social mountaintops

Descendants

• → Finnish: reivit (pl)

Translations

enthusiastic review

• Bulgarian: възторжена критика f (vǎztoržena kritika)
• Finnish: ylistys (fi)
• Italian: critica entusiasta f, elogio (it) m

dance party

• Arabic: هذيان (hadhyān)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 狂野派對／狂野派对 (kuángyě pàiduì)

• Finnish: reivit (fi) pl
• French: rave (fr) m
• Georgian: რეივი (reivi)
• German: Rave (de) m
• Italian: orgia (it), baldoria (it), rave (it) m
• Japanese: レイブ (reibu), レイヴ (reivu)
• Portuguese: rave (pt) f
• Swedish: rejv (sv)

Verb

rave (third-person singular simple present raves, present participle raving, simple past and past participle raved)

1. (intransitive) To be mentally unclear; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.
   • 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene iv, page 1:

     Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast?

   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 13, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     The mingled torrent of redcoats and tartans went raving down the valley to the gorge of Killiecrankie.

2. (intransitive) To speak or write wildly or incoherently.
   • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

     "She is in trance. Your daughter, sir, is a powerful medium." "A medium! You are raving."

3. (intransitive, followed by "about", "of" or (formerly) "on") To talk with excessive enthusiasm, passion or excitement.

   He raved about her beauty.

   • 1812, Lord Byron, “Canto I”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: Printed for John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, stanza LXII:

     The hallowed scene / Which others rave on, though they know it not.

   • 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     “A beautiful country!”
     “I suppose it is. Everybody says so.”
     “Your cousin Feenix raves about it, Edith,” interposed her mother from her couch.

4. (obsolete) To rush wildly or furiously.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Under a mightie rocke, gainst which do rave
     The roaring billowes in their proud disdaine

5. (intransitive) To attend a rave (dance party).
   • 2021, Samantha Durbin, Raver Girl: Coming of Age in the 90s:

     The situation with Tommy's parents made me grateful my parents hadn't caught on to my partying that summer. How had I gotten away with raving every weekend, and sometimes on Thursday nights too?

Derived terms

• rant and rave

Descendants

• → Finnish: reivata

Translations

to speak or write incoherently

• Bulgarian: говоря несвързано (govorja nesvǎrzano)
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} deliri (eo)
• Finnish: houria (fi), horista (fi), höpistä (fi), höpöttää (fi)
• German: toben (de), rasen (de)
• Italian: delirare (it), farneticare (it), sragionare (it), vaneggiare (it)
• Latin: ālūcinor
• Maori: tīhāhā, hakahaka, tupehau, rūtā
• Old English: woffian, āwoffian
• Portuguese: devanear (pt), delirar (pt), desvairar (pt), tresvairar, tresloucar (pt), malucar (pt)
• Spanish: desvariar (es), delirar (es), disparatar (es), devanear (es)

to talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion; followed by about

• Bulgarian: говоря възторжено (govorja vǎztorženo)
• Finnish: ylistää (fi)
• German: schwärmen (de), phantasieren (de)
• Maori: pahupahu
• Russian: расхва́ливать (ru) (rasxválivatʹ), быть в восто́рге от (bytʹ v vostórge ot)

to attend a rave

• Arabic: احتفل (iḥtafala)
• Finnish: reivata (fi)
• German: raven (de)

See also

• rant

Etymology 2

English dialect raves, or rathes (“a frame laid on a wagon, for carrying hay, etc.”).

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

rave (plural raves)

1. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.

Etymology 3

Verb

rave

1. (obsolete) simple past of rive

Anagrams

• AVRE, Vera, aver, evar, vare, vera

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan rave, from Latin raphănus, borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥάφανος (rháphanos). The medieval plural ravens (with retention of etymological /n/) survives in western Catalan dialects and Valencian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈra.βə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈra.və]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈra.ve]

Noun

rave m (plural raves or ravens)

1. radish
2. (figurative) trifle (thing of little importance or worth)

Derived terms

• api-rave
• bleda-rave
• rave de mar
• rave japonès
• rave negre
• rave rusticà
• ravenera
• ravenissa
• raves fregits

 

References

• “rave” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “rave” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /raːvə/, [ˈʁɑːwə]

Verb

rave (imperative rav, infinitive at rave, present tense raver, past tense ravede, perfect tense har ravet)

1. reel
2. stagger, totter, lurch

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reːf/

• Audio:

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Etymology 1

Borrowed from English rave.

Noun

rave m (plural raves, diminutive raveje n)

1. rave (electronic dance party)

   Kom je vanavond naar de rave in het bos? ― Are you coming to the rave in the forest tonight?

Derived terms

• ravemuziek

 

Related terms

• raven

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

rave

1. inflection of raven:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative
   4. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive

Anagrams

• vare

French

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Franco-Provençal râva.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁav/

Noun

rave m (plural raves)

1. beet, turnip

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English rave.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛv/
• Homophone: rêve

Noun

rave m (plural raves)

1. rave party

   Synonym: rave party

Further reading

• “rave”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• rêva

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈraː.u̯e/, [ˈräːu̯ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈra.ve/, [ˈräːve]

Adjective

rāve

1. vocative masculine singular of rāvus

References

• rave in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Middle English

Noun

rave

1. Alternative form of reif

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English rave.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁej.vi/ [ˈheɪ̯.vi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁej.vi/ [ˈheɪ̯.vi]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈʁej.vi/ [ˈχeɪ̯.vi]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁej.ve/ [ˈheɪ̯.ve]

Noun

rave f (plural raves)

1. rave (party)

Hypernyms

• festa

Further reading

• “rave”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “rave”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English rave.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈreib/ [ˈrei̯β̞]
• Rhymes: -eib

Noun

rave f (plural raves)

1. rave (party)

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Swedish

Alternative forms

• rejv

Noun

rave n

1. rave (all-night dance party with electronic music, or the associated culture)

   Synonym: (rave party) raveparty

Declension

Declension of rave

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	rave	raves
	definite	ravet	ravets
plural	indefinite	rave	raves
	definite	raven	ravens

Related terms

• rejva
• rejvare

References

• rave in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• rave in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Venetan

Noun

rave

1. plural of rava