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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The state of being transported by a lofty emotion; ecstasy.
  2. n. An expression of ecstatic feeling. Often used in the plural.
  3. n. The transporting of a person from one place to another, especially to heaven.
  4. v. To enrapture.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A violent taking and carrying away; seizure; forcible removal.
  2. n. Violent transporting movement; a rapid carrying or going along; moving energy.
  3. n. A state of mental transport or exaltation; ecstasy. Ecstatic pleasure; rapt delight or enjoyment; extreme joy over or gladness on account of something.
  4. n. Ecstatic elevation of thought or feeling; lofty or soaring enthusiasm; exalted or absorbing earnestness.
  5. n. A manifestation of mental transport; an ecstatic utterance or action; an expression of exalted or passionate feeling of any kind; a rhapsody.
  6. n. An ecstasy of passionate excitement; a paroxysm or fit from excessive emotion.
  7. n. Synonyms Transport, bliss, exaltation.
  8. To enrapture.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
  2. n. In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living believers. (Usually "the rapture.")
  3. n. obsolete The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
  4. n. obsolete Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.
  5. n. obsolete The act of carrying, conveying, transporting or sweeping along by force of movement; the force of such movement; the fact of being carried along by such movement.
  6. v. dated, intransitive to experience great happiness or excitement
  7. v. dated, transitive to cause to experience great happiness or excitement
  8. v. rare to take part in the Rapture

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence.
  2. n. The state or condition of being rapt, or carried away from one's self by agreeable excitement; violence of a pleasing passion; extreme joy or pleasure; ecstasy.
  3. n. obsolete A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.
  4. v. Poetic To transport with excitement; to enrapture.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a state of elated bliss
  2. n. a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion

Etymologies

  1. Latin raptūra, future active participle of rapiō ("snatch, carry off") (Wiktionary)
  2. Obsolete French, abduction, carrying off, from rapt, carried away, from Old French rat, from Latin raptus; see rapt. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (10)

Words with the same meaning

  1. ecstasy
  2. transport
  1. exultation
  2. bliss
  1. delight
  2. spasm
  1. fit
  2. syncope
  1. delirium
  2. enrapture

hypernyms (7)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. walking on air
  1. cloud nine
  1. blissfulness
  1. bliss
  1. seventh heaven
  1. emotional state
  1. spirit

same context (14)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. ecstasy
  2. joy
  1. bliss
  2. gladness
  1. anguish
  2. awe
  1. tenderness
  2. exultation
  1. exaltation
  2. adoration
  1. astonishment
  2. enjoyment
  1. sweetness
  2. triumph

rhymes (3)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. capture
  1. enrapture
  1. recapture

reverse dictionary (32)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. rapturous
  2. raptured
  3. enravishment
  4. ecstasy
  5. exaltation
  6. trance
  1. transportedly
  2. rap
  3. rapt
  4. rapturist
  5. rapturously
  6. ravish
  1. ravishing
  2. enrapt
  3. enrapture
  4. ravishment
  5. swoon
  6. rhapsodic
  1. transport
  2. ecstatic
  3. enraptured
  4. rapturize
  5. verve
  6. bliss
  1. delight
  2. delirious
  3. delirium
  4. enchantment
  5. joy
  6. passion
  1. stare
  2. transportation

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  • Louises While the sudden plunge tore us out of our bodies and for an unmeasurable moment returned us to the thing that wasn't God but the aspect of him that was ours, and in which infinitely generous archetype there was neither her nor me but only the rapture that calls you home to unity with the sweetest song and painlessly burns away the straps and buckles of the suffering self. bliss. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan. Mar 18, 2012

  • dbekeny SCARECROW
    The sum of the square roots of any two
    sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to
    the square root of the remaining side. Oh
    joy, rapture! I've got a brain!
    Jun 11, 2010

  • yarb I too look forward to the rapture, and expect to be spared the yammering nonsense of righteous theists. Take them away, oh lord! Sep 22, 2008

  • bilby "Ed Kalnins is Sarah Palin's former pastor at the Wasilla Assembly of God Church which she attended for 26 years. He sees powerful signs that the end of the world is drawing nigh and assured a London Times reporter that Biblical scripture specifically mentions shortages of oil and wars for its control. When the end comes, he expects to be raptured with other righteous Christians and spared the suffering of those of us who will be left behind."
    - Chip Ward, 'The Evolution of John McCain: Why He Picked Sarah Palin, Carbon Queen', 21 Sep 2008. Sep 22, 2008

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