rave

• enPR: rāv, IPA^(key): /ɹeɪv/
• 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 (plural raves)

1. 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.

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

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.
   • Addison

     Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast?

   • Macaulay

     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.
   • 1748, David Hume, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, Section 3. § 5.

     A production without design would resemble more the ravings of a madman, than the sober efforts of genius and learning.

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

   He raved about her beauty.

   • Byron

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

4. (obsolete) To rush wildly or furiously.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

5. To attend a rave (dance party).

• rant

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

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

From Latin raphănus, from Ancient Greek ῥάφανος (rháphanos)[1]. Cf. also French rave.

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

rave m (plural raves)

1. radish

• “rave” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• 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

rave

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

• vare

From Old French, from Latin rapa, plural of rāpum, used instead 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/

rave m (plural raves)

1. rave party

• rêva

• “rave” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈraː.we/, [ˈraː.wɛ]

rāve

1. vocative masculine singular of rāvus

• rave in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

rave

1. Alternative form of reif

rave f (plural raves)

1. rave (party)

rave

1. plural of rava