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rave

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English

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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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 made 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

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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

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

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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

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rave

  1. (obsolete) simple past of rive

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  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

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Etymology

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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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rave m (plural raves or ravens)

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

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  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

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  • 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

Dutch

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from English rave.

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rave m (plural raves, diminutive raveje n)

  1. rave (electronic dance party)
    Kom je vanavond naar de rave in het bos? ― Are you coming to the rave in the forest tonight?
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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rave

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

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French

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Franco-Provençal râva.

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rave m (plural raves)

  1. beet, turnip

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from English rave.

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rave m (plural raves)

  1. rave party
    Synonym: rave party

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Latin

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Adjective

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rāve

  1. vocative masculine singular of rāvus

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Middle English

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rave

  1. Alternative form of reif

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English rave.

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rave f (plural raves)

  1. rave (party)

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Spanish

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Etymology

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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

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rave n

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

Declension

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Declension of rave
nominative genitive
singular indefinite rave raves
definite ravet ravets
plural indefinite rave raves
definite raven ravens
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Venetan

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rave

  1. plural of rava
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