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Rave
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- 1 A surname.
- 1 An enthusiastic review (such as of a play). countable, informal
"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."
- 2 One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.
"It was astonishing to see how he had gnawed the rave of the sled."
- 3 an extravagantly enthusiastic review wordnet
- 4 An all-night dance party with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) in small unknown clubs. countable, uncountable
- 5 a dance party that lasts all night and electronically synthesized music is played wordnet
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- 6 The genres of electronic dance music made to be played in rave parties. uncountable
"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"
- 1 To be mentally unclear; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging. intransitive
"Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast?"
- 2 To wander or roam. Newfoundland, Scotland, intransitive
- 3 simple past of rive form-of, obsolete, past
- 4 praise enthusiastically wordnet
- 5 To speak or write wildly or incoherently. intransitive
""She is in trance. Your daughter, sir, is a powerful medium." "A medium! You are raving.""
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- 6 To stray or err. Newfoundland, Scotland, intransitive
- 7 talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner wordnet
- 8 To talk with excessive enthusiasm, passion or excitement. intransitive
"He raved about her beauty."
- 9 participate in an all-night techno dance party wordnet
- 10 To rush wildly or furiously. obsolete
"Under a mightie rocke, gainst which do rave The roaring billowes in their proud disdaine"
- 11 To attend a rave (dance party). intransitive
"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?"
Etymology
From Middle English raven (“to rave; talk like a madman”), from Old French raver, variant of resver, of uncertain origin. Compare rave below, and rove.
From Middle English raven (“to rave; talk like a madman”), from Old French raver, variant of resver, of uncertain origin. Compare rave below, and rove.
From northern Middle English raven, from Old Norse ráfa (“to wander, roam”), of uncertain and obscure origin. Perhaps from a dissimilation of Proto-Germanic *wab(b)ōną (“to sway, waver, swing, shake, wobble, totter, reel, careen”), from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to move, swarm, waft”). Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk rava (“to wander, be delirious”). Doublet of rove. Compare also Middle Dutch reven (“to utter nonsense, rave, be drowsy”) (whence modern Dutch revelen (“to rave, talk nonsense”), Middle Low German rēven (“to be crazy, think and talk nonsensically”), Middle High German reben (“to move about, dream, be confused”) (compare Alemannic German räbeln (“to make loud noise”)).
English dialect raves, or rathes (“a frame laid on a wagon, for carrying hay, etc.”).
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