rave

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English[edit]

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Pronunciation[edit]

  • enPR: rāv, IPA(key): /ɹeɪv/
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  • Rhymes: -eɪv

Etymology 1[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

rave (countable and uncountable, plural raves)

  1. 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.) and possibly drug use.
  3. (music, uncountable) The genres of electronic dance music usually associated with 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[edit]
  • Finnish: reivit (pl)
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Verb[edit]

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

  1. To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.
  2. To speak or write wildly or incoherently.
  3. To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; followed by about, of, or (formerly) on.
    He raved about her beauty.
  4. (obsolete) To rush wildly or furiously.
  5. To attend a rave (dance party).
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Etymology 2[edit]

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

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Noun[edit]

rave (plural raves)

  1. One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.

Etymology 3[edit]

Verb[edit]

rave

  1. (obsolete) simple past tense of rive

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “rave”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old Catalan rave, from Latin raphănus, borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥάφανος (rháphanos).[1] The medieval plural ravens (with retention of etymological /n/) survives in western Catalan dialects and Valencian.[2]

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Noun[edit]

rave m (plural raves or ravens)

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

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ rave”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
  2. ^ “rave” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /raːvə/, [ˈʁɑːwə]

Verb[edit]

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

  1. reel
  2. stagger, totter, lurch

Dutch[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

rave

  1. first-person singular present indicative of raven
  2. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of raven
  3. imperative of raven

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French[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from a southern Gallo-Romance language (compare Occitan raba and Franco-Provençal râva; a native French form would have been *rève), from Latin rāpa, plural of rāpum, reinterpreted as a feminine singular. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *rap-. Compare Italian rapa and Venetian rava.

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Noun[edit]

rave m (plural raves)

  1. beet, turnip

Etymology 2[edit]

Borrowed from English rave.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

rave m (plural raves)

  1. rave party
    Synonym: rave party

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Latin[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

rāve

  1. vocative masculine singular of rāvus

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Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

rave

  1. Alternative form of reif

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from English rave.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

rave f (plural raves)

  1. rave (party)

Usage notes[edit]

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.

Venetian[edit]

Noun[edit]

rave

  1. plural of rava