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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 (countable and uncountable, plural raves)
- (informal, countable) 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.
- An all-night dance party with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) in small unknown clubs.
- Synonym: rave-up
- (music, uncountable) The genres of electronic dance music maded to be played in 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
Translations
Verb
rave (third-person singular simple present raves, present participle raving, simple past and past participle raved)
- (intransitive) To be mentally unclear; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.
1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. , London: J Tonson, , published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene iv, page 1:Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast?
- (intransitive) To speak or write wildly or incoherently.
- (intransitive, followed by "about", "of" or (formerly) "on") To talk with excessive enthusiasm, passion or excitement.
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.
- (obsolete) To rush wildly or furiously.
- (intransitive) To attend a rave (dance party).
2021, Samantha Durbin, Raver Girl: Coming of Age in the 90s:The situation with Tommy's parents made me grateful my parents hadn't caught on to my partying that summer. How had I gotten away with raving every weekend, and sometimes on Thursday nights too?
Derived terms
Descendants
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)
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to talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion; followed by about
See also
Etymology 2
English dialect raves, or rathes (“a frame laid on a wagon, for carrying hay, etc.”).
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Noun
rave (plural raves)
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.
Etymology 3
Verb
rave
- (obsolete) simple past of rive
References
- ^ “rave”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- ^ “rave”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
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
Noun
rave m (plural raves or ravens)
- radish
- (figurative) trifle (thing of little importance or worth)
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Danish
Pronunciation
Verb
rave (imperative rav, infinitive at rave, present tense raver, past tense ravede, perfect tense har ravet)
- reel
- stagger, totter, lurch
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
rave
- inflection of raven:
- first-person singular present indicative
- (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive
- imperative
Anagrams
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
Noun
rave m (plural raves)
- beet, turnip
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English rave.
Pronunciation
Noun
rave m (plural raves)
- rave party
- Synonym: rave party
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Latin
Pronunciation
Adjective
rāve
- vocative masculine singular of rāvus
References
Middle English
Noun
rave
- Alternative form of reif
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English rave.
Pronunciation
Noun
rave f (plural raves)
- rave (party)
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Further reading
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English rave.
Pronunciation
Noun
rave f (plural raves)
- 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.
Swedish
Alternative forms
Noun
rave n
- rave (all-night dance party with electronic music, or the associated culture)
- Synonym: (rave party) raveparty
Declension
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Venetian
Noun
rave
- plural of rava