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rave

See also: Rave

English edit

 
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Pronunciation edit

  • enPR: rāv, IPA(key): /ɹeɪv/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪv

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle English raven (“to rave; talk like a madman”), from Old French raver, variant of resver, of uncertain origin. Compare rove.

Noun edit

rave (countable and uncountable, plural raves)

  1. (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.
  2. An all-night dance party with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) in small unknown clubs.
    Synonym: rave-up
  3. (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
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  • → Finnish: reivit (pl)
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Verb edit

rave (third-person singular simple present raves, present participle raving, simple past and past participle raved)

  1. (intransitive) To be mentally unclear; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.
  2. (intransitive) To speak or write wildly or incoherently.
  3. (intransitive, followed by "about", "of" or (formerly) "on") To talk with excessive enthusiasm, passion or excitement.
    He raved about her beauty.
  4. (obsolete) To rush wildly or furiously.[1]
  5. (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?
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Etymology 2 edit

English dialect raves, or rathes (“a frame laid on a wagon, for carrying hay, etc.”).

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Noun edit

rave (plural raves)

  1. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.[2]

Etymology 3 edit

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rave

  1. (obsolete) simple past of rive

References edit

  1. ^ “rave”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  2. ^ “rave”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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Catalan edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old Catalan rave, from Latin raphănus, borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥάφανος (rháphanos).[1] The medieval plural ravens (with retention of etymological /n/) survives in western Catalan dialects and Valencian.[2]

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Noun edit

rave m (plural raves or ravens)

  1. radish
  2. (figurative) trifle (thing of little importance or worth)

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References edit

  1. ^ “rave”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  2. ^ “rave” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /raːvə/, [ˈʁɑːwə]

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rave (imperative rav, infinitive at rave, present tense raver, past tense ravede, perfect tense har ravet)

  1. reel
  2. stagger, totter, lurch

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rave

  1. inflection of raven:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive
    3. imperative

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Etymology 1 edit

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.

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rave m (plural raves)

  1. beet, turnip

Etymology 2 edit

Borrowed from English rave.

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Noun edit

rave m (plural raves)

  1. rave party
    Synonym: rave party

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Adjective edit

rāve

  1. vocative masculine singular of rāvus

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Middle English edit

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rave

  1. Alternative form of reif

Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

Unadapted borrowing from English rave.

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rave f (plural raves)

  1. rave (party)

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Etymology edit

Unadapted borrowing from English rave.

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rave f (plural raves)

  1. rave (party)

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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.

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Noun edit

rave n

  1. rave (all-night dance party with electronic music, or the associated culture)
    Synonym: (rave party) raveparty

Declension edit

Declension of rave 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative rave ravet rave raven
Genitive raves ravets raves ravens

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Noun edit

rave

  1. plural of rava
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