rave
IPA: rˈeɪv
noun
- (informal, countable) An enthusiastic review (such as of a play).
- An all-night dance party with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) in small unknown clubs.
- (music, uncountable) The genres of electronic dance music maded to be played in rave parties.
- One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.
- A surname.
verb
- (intransitive) To be mentally unclear; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.
- (intransitive) To speak or write wildly or incoherently.
- (intransitive, followed by "about", "of" or (formerly) "on") To talk with excessive enthusiasm, passion or excitement.
- (obsolete) To rush wildly or furiously.
- (intransitive) To attend a rave (dance party).
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Examples of "rave" in Sentences
- He raved his colleagues in public.
- The candidate raved to get more votes.
- The top hotel was raved by the customers.
- The film was raved with reviews from the people.
- My current rave is mash-ups, where a DJ mixes two different musical styles together.
- That policy may win rave headlines in the Daily Mail, and 'hear hear' chants on the right.
- I love the end of the segment, when Matt Lauer says: "Look up the word rave in the dictionary, that's it right there."
- THE HARD WAY was great good fun -- and his newest book, which recently received a rave from the NYT, is supposed to be his best yet.
- This party theme subculture generally grew in numbers around 1980s, and the term rave was used to describe acid-house movements and "E" - fueled club scenes in Houston.
- The fact that anyone listens to either one of them or takes them seriously when they rant and rave is the surest indication of just how much the American educational system has failed. nea-nea
- Gunners boss Arsene Wenger had called on his team to maintain the momentum which has dragged them right back into the title rave with five wins from six but it was Everton who made the better start.
- The surprise came when I went to www. amazon.com to see if there was a paperback edition and found, along with the expected rave from a librarian, a couple of attacks by parents on the poor moral “value systems” of the book.
- In January 1897 Kipling's latest volume of poetry, The Seven Seas, prompted a rave from the usually imperious Harvard savant Charles Eliot Norton, whose esteem for the poems was no doubt colored by his close friendship with the Kipling family.