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Rave   /reɪv/   Listen
Rave

noun
1.
A dance party that lasts all night and electronically synthesized music is played.
2.
An extravagantly enthusiastic review.
verb
1.
Participate in an all-night techno dance party.
2.
Talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner.  Synonyms: jabber, mouth off, rabbit on, rant, spout.
3.
Praise enthusiastically.  Synonym: gush.



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"Rave" Quotes from Famous Books



... poor little simp thinks this feller's a angel. Why,—when she gets out o' her head, she don't rave about nothin' but him, beggin' him to help her. Ain't it somethin' fierce, though?" The blonde person dabbed at her ...
— The Purple Heights • Marie Conway Oemler
... (the Missionaries found him out and called him names, but they did not understand his trouble), he discovered Lalun on the City wall and became the most constant of her few admirers. He possessed a head that English artists at home would rave over and paint amid impossible surroundings—a face that female novelists would use with delight through nine hundred pages. In reality he was only a clean-bred young Muhammadan, with penciled eyebrows, small-cut nostrils, little feet and hands, and a very tired look in his eyes. By ...
— Indian Tales • Rudyard Kipling
... they were read by very few. He was a famous Painter, too, and shone upon the "line," And even MR. RUSKIN came and worshipped at his shrine; But, alas, the school he followed was heroically high - The kind of Art men rave about, but very seldom buy; And everybody said "How can he be repaid - This very great - this very good - this very gifted man?" But nobody could hit upon a ...
— Songs of a Savoyard • W. S. Gilbert
... better come with me, then. These people are all sharks. Everybody in Quebec's agog to see the Two- souled Lady. Answer no questions at all. Take not the least notice of them. Just follow me to the Custom House. Let them rave, ...
— Recalled to Life • Grant Allen
... between them left the trader overwhelmed. Alec, so tall, so clean-cut and athletic of build. His handsome face so classically molded. His fair hair the sort that any woman might rave over. Murray, insignificant, except in bulk. But for his curious dark eyes he must inevitably have been passed over without a ...
— The Triumph of John Kars - A Story of the Yukon • Ridgwell Cullum


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