rave

See also: Rave

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: rāv, IPA(key): /ɹeɪv/
  • 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 (plural raves)

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

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.
    • Addison
      Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast?
    • Macaulay
      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.
    • 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.
  3. To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; followed by about, of, or (formerly) on.
    He raved about her beauty.
    • Byron
      The hallowed scene / Which others rave on, though they know it not.
  4. (obsolete) To rush wildly or furiously.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
  5. 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)

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

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin rāpum.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

rave m (plural raves)

  1. radish

Further reading

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

Verb

rave

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

Anagrams

French

Etymology 1

From Latin rapa, plural of rāpum, used instead as a feminine singular. Compare Italian rapa and Venetian rava.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁav/

Noun

rave m (plural raves)

  1. beet, turnip

Etymology 2

From English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁɛv/

Noun

rave m (plural raves)

  1. rave party

Anagrams

Further reading

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈraː.we/, [ˈraː.wɛ]

Adjective

rāve

  1. vocative masculine singular of rāvus

References

Middle English

Noun

rave

  1. Alternative form of reif

Spanish

Noun

rave f (plural raves)

  1. rave (party)

Venetian

Noun

rave

  1. plural of rava
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