# rave
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: rāv, IPA: /ɹeɪv/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪv

### Etymology 1

From Middle English raven (“to rave; talk like a madman”), from Old French raver, variant of resver, of uncertain origin. Compare rove.

#### Noun

rave (countable and uncountable, plural raves)
* (informal, countable) An enthusiastic review (such as of a play).
    Synonym: raving review
** 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.
* An all-night dance party with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) in small unknown clubs.
    Synonym: rave-up
* (music, uncountable) The genres of electronic dance music made to be played in 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

##### Derived terms

* all the rave

##### Descendants

* → Finnish: reivit (pl)

##### Translations
#### Verb

rave (third-person singular simple present raves, present participle raving, simple past and past participle raved)
* (intransitive) To be mentally unclear; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.
** 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene iv, page 1:Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast?
** 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XIII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:The mingled torrent of redcoats and tartans went raving down the valley to the gorge of Killiecrankie.
* (intransitive) To speak or write wildly or incoherently.
** 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:"She is in trance. Your daughter, sir, is a powerful medium." "A medium! You are raving."
* (intransitive, followed by "about", "of" or (formerly) "on") To talk with excessive enthusiasm, passion or excitement.
    He raved about her beauty.
** 1812, Lord Byron, “Canto I”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: Printed for John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, stanza LXII:The hallowed scene / Which others rave on, though they know it not.
** 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:“A beautiful country!” “I suppose it is. Everybody says so.” “Your cousin Feenix raves about it, Edith,” interposed her mother from her couch.
* (obsolete) To rush wildly or furiously.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:Under a mightie rocke, gainst which do rave The roaring billowes in their proud disdaine
* (intransitive) To attend a rave (dance party).
** 2021, Samantha Durbin, Raver Girl: Coming of Age in the 90s:The situation with Tommy's parents made me grateful my parents hadn't caught on to my partying that summer. How had I gotten away with raving every weekend, and sometimes on Thursday nights too?

##### Derived terms

* rant and rave

##### Descendants

* → Finnish: reivata

##### Translations
#### See also

* rant

### Etymology 2

English dialect raves, or rathes (“a frame laid on a wagon, for carrying hay, etc.”).
This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

#### Noun

rave (plural raves)
* (Can we verify this sense?) One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

rave
* (obsolete) simple past of rive

### References

* ↑ “rave”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* ↑ “rave”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* AVRE, Vera, aver, evar, vare, vera

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan rave, from Latin raphănus, borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥάφανος (rháphanos). The medieval plural ravens (with retention of etymological /n/) survives in western Catalan dialects and Valencian.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈra.βə]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈra.və]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈra.ve]

### Noun

rave m (plural raves or ravens)
* radish
* (figurative) trifle (thing of little importance or worth)

#### Derived terms

* api-rave
* bleda-rave
* rave de mar
* rave japonès
* rave negre
* rave rusticà
* ravenera
* ravenissa
* raves fregits

### References

* ↑ “rave”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* ↑ “rave” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
* “rave” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “rave” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

## Danish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /raːvə/, [ˈʁɑːwə]

### Verb

rave (imperative rav, infinitive at rave, present tense raver, past tense ravede, perfect tense har ravet)
* reel
* stagger, totter, lurch

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /reːf/
* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English rave.

#### Noun

rave m (plural raves, diminutive raveje n)
* rave (electronic dance party)
    Kom je vanavond naar de rave in het bos? ― Are you coming to the rave in the forest tonight?

##### Derived terms

* ravemuziek
* raveteef

##### Related terms

* raven

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

rave
* inflection of raven:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative
** (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive

### Anagrams

* vare

## French
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Franco-Provençal râva.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʁav/

#### Noun

rave m (plural raves)
* beet, turnip
* (mining) miner's lamp

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English rave.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʁɛv/
* Homophone: rêve

#### Noun

rave m (plural raves)
* rave party
    Synonym: rave party

### Further reading

* “rave”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* rêva

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈraː.u̯e/, [ˈräːu̯ɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈra.ve/, [ˈräːve]

### Adjective

rāve
* vocative masculine singular of rāvus

### References

* "rave", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

## Middle English
### Noun

rave
* Alternative form of reif

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English rave.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁej.vi/ [ˈheɪ̯.vi]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁej.vi/ [ˈheɪ̯.vi]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈʁej.vi/ [ˈχeɪ̯.vi]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁej.ve/ [ˈheɪ̯.ve]

### Noun

rave f (plural raves)
* rave (party)

#### Hypernyms

* festa

### Further reading

* “rave”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
* “rave”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English rave.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈreib/ [ˈrei̯β̞]
* Rhymes: -eib

### Noun

rave f (plural raves)
* rave (party)

#### Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

### Further reading

* Manuel Seco, Olimpia Andrés, Gabino Ramos (2023 August 3) “rave”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]

## Swedish
### Alternative forms

* rejv

### Noun

rave n
* rave (all-night dance party with electronic music, or the associated culture)
    Synonym: (rave party) raveparty

#### Related terms

* rejva
* rejvare

### References

* rave in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* rave in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

## Venetan
### Noun

rave
* plural of rava