rave

• enPR: rāv, IPA^(key): /ɹeɪv/

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• Rhymes: -eɪv

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

rave (countable and uncountable, plural raves)

1. 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.) and possibly drug use.
3. (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

• → Finnish: reivit (pl)

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

1. To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.
   • 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, OCLC 79426475, Act I, scene iv, page 1:

   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 13, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:

     The mingled torrent of redcoats and tartans went raving down the valley to the gorge of Killiecrankie.

2. To speak or write wildly or incoherently.
   • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

     "She is in trance. Your daughter, sir, is a powerful medium." "A medium! You are raving."

3. To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; followed by about, of, or (formerly) on.

   He raved about her beauty.

   • 1812, Lord Byron, “Canto I”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: Printed for John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], OCLC 22697011, stanza LXII:

     The hallowed scene / Which others rave on, though they know it not.

   • 1848, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son

     “A beautiful country!”
     “I suppose it is. Everybody says so.”
     “Your cousin Feenix raves about it, Edith,” interposed her mother from her couch.

4. (obsolete) To rush wildly or furiously.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:

     Under a mightie rocke, gainst which do rave
     The roaring billowes in their proud disdaine

5. To attend a rave (dance party).

• → Finnish: reivata

• rant

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

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rave (plural raves)

1. One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.

rave

1. (obsolete) simple past tense of rive

• AVRE, Vera, aver, evar, vare, vera

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]

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈra.və/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈra.bə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈra.ve/

rave m (plural raves)

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

• “rave” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “rave” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

• IPA^(key): /raːvə/, [ˈʁɑːwə]

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. first-person singular present indicative of raven
2. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of raven
3. imperative of raven

• vare

Borrowed from a southern Gallo-Romance language (compare Occitan raba and Francoprovençal 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.

• IPA^(key): /ʁav/

rave m (plural raves)

1. beet, turnip

Borrowed from English rave.

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛv/
• Homophone: rêve

rave m (plural raves)

1. rave party

   Synonym: rave party

• “rave”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• rêva

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈraː.u̯e/, [ˈräːu̯ɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈra.ve/, [ˈräːve]

rāve

1. vocative masculine singular of rāvus

• rave in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

rave

1. Alternative form of reif

Unadapted borrowing from English rave.

• IPA^(key): /ˈreib/ [ˈrei̯β̞]
• Rhymes: -eib

rave f (plural raves)

1. rave (party)

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.

rave

1. plural of rava