rave

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"I could not believe it when I say that this rave was being advertised for all ages," Mupo said at the meeting.

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  1. intransitive verb To speak wildly, irrationally, or incoherently.
  2. intransitive verb To roar; rage: The storm raved along the coast.
  3. intransitive verb To speak or write with wild enthusiasm: Critics raved about the new play.
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  • "I could not believe it when I say that this rave was being advertised for all ages," Mupo said at the meeting. —  San Bernardino County Sun Most Viewed
  • "By its own definition, a rave is an illegal, unsupervised and unticketed event that is held underground," he wrote.
  • Of course if you want to see what the rave was about I suppose you'll have to buy the magazine [april / may 2008 issue] from the good guys at harmonia. ie —  Irish Blogs
  • Aryana said Pharaoh's is an entertainment venue, and the rave was a way of bringing culture to the area.
  • Anyone who has tried to use an iPhone as the sole source of music for a rave has been sorely disappointed, the speakers just don't generate a cavern filling amount of volume. —  Apple Matters
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Etymologies (7)

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  1. Middle English raven, from Old North French raver, variant of resver, to dream, wander, rave.

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  1. from ME, raven, rave, talk like a madman (cf. Middle Dutch freq. ravelen, D. revelen, dote, etc.), from Old French raver, resver, rave, dote, speak idly, French réver, dream (cf. Old French ravasser, rave, talk idly, reve, madness): =Spanish rabiar, rave, =Portuguese raivar, rage (cf. Italian ar-rabbiare, rage, go mad), from Late Latin *rabiare, rave, rage, from Latin rabies, Middle Latin rabia, rage, from Latin rabere, rave, rage: see rage, n., and cf. rage, v., practically a doublet of rave. Cf. also reverie.
  2. from Middle English raven; a secondary form of riven, after the preterit rave: see rive.
  3. A dial, form of reave.
  4. from rave, v.
  5. Origin obscure.
  6. Middle English, from Old French rave, from Latin rapa, rapum, a turnip: see rape.
 

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