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).
   • 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

Translations

enthusiastic review

• Bulgarian: възторжена критика f (vǎztoržena kritika)
• Finnish: ylistys (fi)

• Italian: critica entusiasta f, elogio (it) m

dance party

• Chinese:

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

• Finnish: reivit (fi) pl
• French: rave (fr) m

• German: Rave (de) m or n
• Italian: orgia (it), baldoria (it), rave 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 79426475, 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 1069526323:

     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.
   • 1926, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Land of Mist‎^[1]:

     "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, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: Printed for John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], OCLC 22697011, canto I, stanza LXII:

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

   • 1848, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son

     “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, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book 3, canto 8:

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

5. To attend a rave (dance party).

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)

to attend a rave

• Finnish: reivata (fi)

• German: raven (de)

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)

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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• AVRE, Vera, aver, evar, vare, vera

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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)

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

Derived terms

• api-rave
• bleda-rave
• rave de mar
• rave japonès
• ravenera
• ravenissa
• rave rusticà
• 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.

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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

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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

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French

Etymology 1

Borrowed from a southern Gallo-Romance language (compare Occitan raba and Francoprovençal 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/

Noun

rave m (plural raves)

1. rave party

   Synonym: rave party

Anagrams

• rêva

Further reading

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

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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)

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Middle English

Noun

rave

1. Alternative form of reif

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Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English rave.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈreib/, [ˈrei̯β̞]

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.

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Venetian

Noun

rave

1. plural of rava