rave
English
Pronunciation
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 (plural raves)
- 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.
- 1989, The New York Times Theater Reviews, 1920- (volume 18, page 167)
- An all-night dance party with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) and possibly drug use.
- (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
- 2009, Chrysalis Experiential Academy, Mind Harvesting (page 109)
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Verb
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- To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.
- (Can we date this quote by Addison and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast?
- (Can we date this quote by Macaulay and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- The mingled torrent of redcoats and tartans went raving down the valley to the gorge of Killiecrankie.
- (Can we date this quote by Addison and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- To speak or write wildly or incoherently.
- 1748, David Hume, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, Section 3. § 5.
- A production without design would resemble more the ravings of a madman, than the sober efforts of genius and learning.
- 1748, David Hume, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, Section 3. § 5.
- To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; followed by about, of, or (formerly) on.
- He raved about her beauty.
- (Can we date this quote by Byron and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- The hallowed scene / Which others rave on, though they know it not.
- (obsolete) To rush wildly or furiously.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
- To attend a rave (dance party).
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Etymology 2
English dialect raves, or rathes (“a frame laid on a wagon, for carrying hay, etc.”).
Noun
rave (plural raves)
Etymology 3
Verb
rave
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
Etymology
From Latin raphănus, from Ancient Greek ῥάφανος (rháphanos)[1]. Cf. also French rave.
Pronunciation
Noun
rave m (plural raves)
Further reading
- “rave” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
References
Danish
Pronunciation
Verb
rave (imperative rav, infinitive at rave, present tense raver, past tense ravede, perfect tense har ravet)
Dutch
Verb
rave
- (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of raven
- (deprecated template usage) (archaic) singular present subjunctive of raven
- (deprecated template usage) imperative of raven
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French
Etymology 1
From Old French, from Latin rapa, plural of rāpum, used instead as a feminine singular. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *rap-. Compare Italian rapa and Venetian rava.
Pronunciation
Noun
rave m (plural raves)
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Noun
rave m (plural raves)
- rave party
Anagrams
Further reading
- “rave”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈraː.u̯e/, [ˈräːu̯ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈra.ve/, [ˈräːve]
Adjective
(deprecated template usage) rāve
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
- Alternative form of reif
Spanish
Noun
rave f (plural raves)
- rave (party)
Venetian
Noun
rave
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