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Definition of 'rave'English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) raver, variant of resver, of uncertain origin.
Noun
( en-noun)
An enthusiastic review (such as of a play).
An all-night dance party filled with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) and possibly drug use.
(uncountable) The genre of electronic dance music 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
Verb
( rav)
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.
To speak or write wildly or incoherently.
* 1748 , David Hume, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding , Section 3. ยง 5.
- A production without design would resemble more the ravings of a madman, than the sober efforts of genius and learning.
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.
(obsolete) To rush wildly or furiously.
- (Spenser)
To attend a rave (dance party).
See also
* rant
Etymology 2
English dialect raves, or .
Noun
( en-noun)
One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.
( Webster 1913)
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