The pianist's performance of a Haydn sonata threw the woman into a rapture bordering on frenzy.
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Rapture
//ˈɹæpt͡ʃɚ//
Synonyms for "rapture" (93 found)
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Closest matches (19)
Strong matches (28)
Related words (46)
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1 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
8 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
28 entriesShowing 16 of 28 words.
Translations
75 translations across 26 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- طَرَب noun (extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement)
- نَشْوَة noun (extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement)
Bulgarian
2 entries- възторг noun (extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement)
- екстаз noun (extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement)
Catalan
2 entries- arravatament name (gathering up of believers in end times)
- rapte name (gathering up of believers in end times)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 被提 name (gathering up of believers in end times)
Danish
1 entries- henrykkelse noun (extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement)
Dutch
3 entries- verrukking name (gathering up of believers in end times)
- wegvoering name (gathering up of believers in end times)
- verrukking fvervoering fextase noun (extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement)
Finnish
3 entries- ylöstempaus name (gathering up of believers in end times)
- hurmio noun (extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement)
- hurmos noun (extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement)
French
3 entries- enlèvement name (gathering up of believers in end times)
- ravissement name (gathering up of believers in end times)
- ravissement noun (extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement)
Galician
4 entries- arranque name (gathering up of believers in end times)
- arrautada name (gathering up of believers in end times)
- arrebato name (gathering up of believers in end times)
- arreutada name (gathering up of believers in end times)
German
4 entries- Entrückung name (gathering up of believers in end times)
- Begeisterung noun (extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement)
- Ekstase noun (extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement)
- Entzücken noun (extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement)
Greek
2 entries- αναρπαγή name (gathering up of believers in end times)
- έκσταση noun (extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement)
Hebrew
2 entries- התלהבות name (gathering up of believers in end times)
- סוף העידן name (gathering up of believers in end times)
Hungarian
3 entries- csodálat noun (extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement)
- elragadtatás noun (extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement)
- rajongás noun (extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement)
Icelandic
4 entries- burthrifning name (gathering up of believers in end times)
- algleymi noun (extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement)
- hrifning noun (extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement)
- sæluvíma noun (extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement)
Italian
2 entries- estasi name (gathering up of believers in end times)
- rapimento name (gathering up of believers in end times)
Japanese
1 entries- 携挙 name (gathering up of believers in end times)
Middle English
1 entries- traunce noun (extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- henrykkelse noun (extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement)
Occitan
1 entries- rabiment noun (extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- وجدان noun (extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement)
Portuguese
1 entries- arrebatamento name (gathering up of believers in end times)
Romanian
1 entries- răpirea name (gathering up of believers in end times)
Russian
3 entries- восхищение name (gathering up of believers in end times)
- восто́рг noun (extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement)
- упое́ние noun (extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement)
Spanish
4 entries- arrebatamiento name (gathering up of believers in end times)
- rapto name (gathering up of believers in end times)
- arrebatamiento noun (extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement)
- arrebato noun (extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement)
Swedish
3 entries- uppryckande name (gathering up of believers in end times)
- hänförelse noun (extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement)
- hänryckning noun (extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement)
Turkish
1 entries- coşku noun (extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement)
Sample sentences
26 total sentences available.
"O Nymphs! O Pan!" he shouted in rapture, and hurrying down to the plain he threw himself into Chloe's arms, so full of delight that he fell fainting to the ground.
Source: tatoeba (6213023)
"Take thou his likeness, only for a night, / and wear the boyish features that are thine; / and when the queen, in rapture of delight, / amid the royal banquet and the wine, / shall lock thee in her arms, and press her lips to thine, / then steal into her bosom, and inspire / through all her veins with unsuspected sleight / the poisoned sting of passion and desire."
Source: tatoeba (6798738)
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but Nature more.
Source: tatoeba (6815345)
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