• enPR: rāv, IPA: /ɹeɪv/

rave

1. An enthusiastic review (such as of a play).
   • 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.) and possibly drug use.
3. (music genre, uncountable) The genres of electronic dance music usually 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

• Italian: critica entusiasta, elogio

• French: rave
• German: Rave
• Italian: orgia, baldoria, rave
• Portuguese: rave

rave (raves, present participle raving; past and past participle raved)

1. To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.
   • 1713, Joseph Addison, Cato, published 1712, [Act 4, scene 1]:

   • 18, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 13, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify ), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323 ↗:

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.

   • The 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).

• Italian: delirare, farneticare, sragionare, vaneggiare
• Portuguese: devanear, delirar, desvairar, tresvairar, tresloucar, malucar
• Spanish: desvariar, delirar, disparatar

• German: raven

• Russian: расхва́ливать

rave (plural raves)

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

1. (obsolete) simple past tense of rive

1. Surname