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rave
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: r?v, IPA(key): /?e?v/
- Rhymes: -e?v
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)
- 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)
Translations
Verb
rave (third-person singular simple present raves, present participle raving, simple past and past participle raved)
- To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.
- To speak or write wildly or incoherently.
- To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; followed by about, of, or (formerly) on.
- (obsolete) To rush wildly or furiously.
- To attend a rave (dance party).
Translations
See also
- rant
Etymology 2
English dialect raves, or rathes (“a frame laid on a wagon, for carrying hay, etc.”).
Noun
rave (plural raves)
- One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.
Etymology 3
Verb
rave
- (obsolete) simple past tense of rive
Anagrams
- AVRE, Vera, aver, evar, vare, vera
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin raph?nus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (rháphanos). Cf. also French rave.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /?ra.v?/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?ra.b?/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /?ra.ve/
Noun
rave m (plural raves)
- radish
- (figuratively) trifle (thing of little importance or worth)
Derived terms
- ravenera
- ravenissa
Further reading
- “rave” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “rave” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “rave” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
References
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ra?v?/, [????w?]
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
- first-person singular present indicative of raven
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of raven
- imperative of raven
Anagrams
- vare
French
Etymology 1
From Old French, from Latin rapa, plural of r?pum, used instead as a feminine singular. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *rap-. Compare Italian rapa and Venetian rava.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?av/
Noun
rave m (plural raves)
- beet, turnip
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English rave.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??v/
Noun
rave m (plural raves)
- rave party
- Synonym: rave party
Anagrams
- rêva
Further reading
- “rave” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?ra?.u?e/, [?rä?u??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?ra.ve/, [?r??v?]
Adjective
r?ve
- vocative masculine singular of r?vus
References
- rave in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
Middle English
Noun
rave
- Alternative form of reif
Spanish
Etymology
From English rave.
Noun
rave f (plural raves)
- rave (party)
Venetian
Noun
rave
- plural of rava
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ravey
English
Etymology
rave +? -y
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??e?vi/
Adjective
ravey (comparative more ravey, superlative most ravey)
- (informal) Characteristic of rave music or culture.
- 1999, Peter Shapiro, Drum 'n' Bass: The Rough Guide
- Smokey Joe's Bad Boy EP (1993) followed suit with an explicitly funky, rather than ravey, feel […]
- 1999, Mireille Silcott, Rave America: New School Dancescapes (page 43)
- […] he couldn't see the end of the human sea: before him were twenty-five thousand people in fluo, stripey ravey gear.
- 1999, Peter Shapiro, Drum 'n' Bass: The Rough Guide
Anagrams
- Avery
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