Rave

Pronunciation

• enPR: rāv, IPA: /reɪv/
• Rhymes: -eɪv

From Old French raver, variant of resver, of uncertain origin.

Full definition of rave

Noun

1. An enthusiastic review (such as of a play).
2. An all-night dance party filled with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) and possibly drug use.
3. (uncountable) The genre of electronic dance music 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

Verb

1. To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.
• AddisonHave I not cause to rave and beat my breast?
• MacaulayThe 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.
• ByronThe hallowed scene
  Which others rave on, though they know it not.
4. (obsolete) To rush wildly or furiously.
5. To attend a rave (dance party).

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

Noun

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

Anagrams

• aver, AVRE, evar, vera, Vera