rave

See also: Rave

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: rāv, IPA^(key): /ɹeɪv/

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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. 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

• → 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
• 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. To wander in mind or intellect; 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:

   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 13, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (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. 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. To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; followed by about, of, or (formerly) on.

   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. To attend a rave (dance party).

Descendants

• → Finnish: reivata

Translations

to speak or write incoherently

• Bulgarian: говоря несвързано (govorja nesvǎrzano)
• 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)
• 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. One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.

Etymology 3

Verb

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.)

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

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈra.və/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈra.bə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /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

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Verb

rave

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

Anagrams

• vare

French

Etymology 1

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.

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) IPA^(key): /ˈraː.u̯e/, [ˈräːu̯ɛ]
• (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

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.

Venetian

Noun

rave

1. plural of rava