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Definition: Rave |
RaveNoun1. An extravagantly enthusiastic review; "he gave it a rave". Verb1. Talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner. 2. Praise enthusiastically; "She raved about that new restaurant". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "rave" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Rave vi. [WPI] 1. To persist in discussing a specific subject. 2. To speak authoritatively on a subject about which one knows very little. 3. To complain to a person who is not in a position to correct the difficulty. 4. To purposely annoy another person verbally. 5. To evangelize. See flame. 6. Also used to describe a less negative form of blather, such as friendly bullshitting. `Rave' differs slightly from flame in that `rave' implies that it is the persistence or obliviousness of the person speaking that is annoying, while flame implies somewhat more strongly that the tone or content is offensive as well. Source: Jargon File. |
Multilingual Slang | Dutch (raaskallen). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Rave music consists of forms of electronic music for dancing that are associated with the rave scene.Rave music got it start in Britain in the late 1980s, closely following the acid house phenomenon. Initially "rave music" was considered particular style that was a combination of fast breakbeat and more hardcore forms of techno. Early 1990s efforts by The Prodigy (The Experience), Utah Saints and The Shamen (En-Tact) were quintessential "rave music".
By the early 2000s, the term was used more generically to mean any one of a number of different styles (or combinations thereof) that might be played at a rave party. In this sense, rave music is more associated with an event than a particular genre, per se. At a rave there can be different "arenas" or areas which play different styles of rave music. Very large raves called massives, may include ten or more separate arenas, each with their own music style.
Raver styles of music continue to grow and evolve. Some genres and an iconic artist include (not an exhaustive list):
Non-dance styles which might be heard in a rave "chill-out" room include:
- house styles: happy hardcore, progressive house - John Digweed, Bad Boy Bill
- trance - Ferry Corsten, DJ Tiesto
- Goa trance - Hallucinogen
- drum and bass / jungle - Andy C, Goldie
- breaks - The Chemical Brothers, The Prodigy, Adam Freeland
- hardcore, techno - Luke Slater, Dave Clarke
Some ravers are selective between genres, showing little or no interest in one area while finding great satisfaction and joy in another. House often has roots in funk and disco while trance has its roots in New Age and symphonic music. Many DJs mix genres, remix existing sounds, or leave electronic music entirely.
- ambient music - Brian Eno, Harold Budd
- IDM - Aphex Twin, Autechre
- turntablism - MixMasterMike, DJ Qbert
See also
- Electronic music
- Trance
- Techno
- House
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rave music."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A rave party, more often just called a rave, also called free-parties, is typically an all-night dance event where electronic dance music and rave music are played, usually by a DJ.
History
Mainstream raves began in the mid-to-late 1980s as both a product of and a reaction against the increasingly commercial, alcohol and meat-market oriented nightclub scene and hollywood-monopolized radio airplay.
In an effort to maintain some distance and secrecy from the mainstream club scene, most raves were (and continue to be) held in places like warehouses, rental halls, and outdoor locations, although sometimes reluctantly nightclubs and legitimate concert venues are used.
Some hardcore ravers believe the first "rave" involved the Baby boomers at Woodstock in 1969, and that the subsequent children of the boomers, later became the first mainstream "ravers". Children of boomers, it can be argued, were raised by parents who professed "free love" and less physical violence in disciplining children, who experimented with drugs, and who openly disagreed with their own parents, especially in regards to the Vietnam War. Such a legacy could explain modern rave culture.
Early raves invitations were only by word of mouth, there by controlling to some extent who would and could attend. As law enforcement began to disrupt raves, the secrecy became very elaborate, with cell phone numbers leading to web sites, leading to other phone numbers, leading to finally a last-minute contact phone number or location, and here you would receive directions to the rave location.
1980s
What could arguably be called raves existed in the early 1980s in the Ecstasy-fueled club scene in Texas and in the drug-free, all-ages scene in Detroit at venues like The Music Institute. However, it wasn't until the mid-to-late 1980s that a wave of psychedelic dance music, most notably Acid House and techno, emerged and caught on in the clubs, warehouses and free-parties of London, England. Police crackdowns on these often-illegal parties drove the scene into the countryside. The word "rave" somehow caught on to describe these semi-spontaneous weekend parties occurring at various locations outside the M25 Orbital motorway.
The early rave scene flourished underground simultaneously in the United Kingdom and some US cities such as San Francisco (home of the seminal and still-legendary Toontown cyber-warehouse parties) and Los Angeles, especially places where groups of British expatriates had set up shop. As word of the budding and still quite underground scene spread, raves quickly caught on in other cities such as San Diego and New York City (home of the legendary 1992 Storm Raves, organized by DJ Frankie Bones), and in major urban centers across the European continent.
1990s: United Kingdom and United States
Although raves were happening with increasing frequency in the U.S., the scene developed primarily in the UK and Europe until around 1991 - 1992, at which point it became a much more global phenomenon.
The spread of raves was initially grassroots only; people who had traveled to attend the first raves began setting up their own, often informal promotion companies to throw their own parties -- mirroring in smaller cities the urban scene with which they had become enamored. As time went on, rave culture became tainted by mainstream commercial interests, with major corporations sponsoring events and adopting the scene's music and fashion for their "edgier" advertising.
In 1994, the Criminal Justice Bill was passed as the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act which contained several sections designed to supress the growing free-party and anti-road protest movements (sometimes charecterised by ravers and travellerss).
Sections 63, 64 & 65 of the Act targeted rave music, defining it as 'wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats'. These sections give powers of arrest to police if they suspect people are preparing to hold a rave (2 or more people); waiting for a rave to start (10+); actually attending a rave (10+). Section 65 lets any uniformed constable who believes a person is on their way to a rave within a 5-mile radius to stop them and direct them away from the area - failure to comply can lead to a maximum fine of £1,000.
By the late 1990s the rave scene seemed to stabilize with mainstream status, the opening of many more clubs and it is still undergoing change, still finding its way towards becoming a fixture in youth culture. Constants in the scene include electronic dance music, a vibrant social network built on the ethos of PLUR, and a love-hate relationship with psychedelic drugs such as Ecstasy and LSD.
1990s: Europe
After an early sparkle worldwide, raves were not a big topic in the US throughout the 1990s. In Central Europe and other parts of the world, rave culture was more explicitly a part of a new youth movement, which was not so much the case in the US, which were more purely hedonistic affairs. In Central Europe, especially the Benelux countries and Germany, raves were identifying a whole generation throughout the nineties. DJ artists such as Westbam proclaimed the "raving society" and promoted techno as legitimate competition to rock and roll. Indeed techno and rave became mass movements as they are not imaginable in the US today. Raves had tens of thousands of attendants, youth magazines featured styling tips and TV stations launched music magazines on house and techno music.
2000s
According to some observers, by the end of the 1990s techno and rave had gone through the same cycle that every original music of an era goes through: a passionate start in the early years with lots of innovators and the idiom of the true underground - an early majority that takes the music into the society - a mass movement where everybody had to be on a rave somehow - a decaying phase when "raver" became the most anticipated word to describe someone with.
By the early 2000s, in Europe, the term "raver" had fallen out of favor, "ravers" returned to be "clubbers". "Rave" used to describe a dance party was not a commonly used term. There were only some traditional "raves" left in Central Europe, such as "Mayday", raves were more commonly known as "festivals". Also by the early 2000s, traditional rave paraphernalia such as face masks, pacifiers and neon colors were not old enough at that time to be considered fashionable again.
Rave culture
Main related articles: rave music, raver
Raves are predominately attended by ravers, a sub-culture. The openness and welcoming nature within the rave community is said to be refreshing in a world filled with judgementalism. Thus, according to ravers, a rave party provides a few hours of escape and relaxation along with a sense of oneness with similar-thinking ravers. Ravers try to be, or at least show that they are happy and fun and avoid negativity or physical confrontation.
The experience at a club are often decidedly different from a rave as clubs take most of their profit from alcohol sales, and create an atmosphere of drunken, slightly slowed intoxication; for this reason, they attract the pre-existing dance music crowd, are 21 and up, and often sound more like commercialised radio stations than a continuous mix of international electronic music, in an positive atmosphere. The combination is apparent in the fights and hostile attitudes that often occur in nightclubs. Fighting or arguing of any sort is extremely rare at raves.
While the influence of recreational drugs on the early rave scene is undeniable, there is much debate over the role drugs continue to play, and what should be done about them. Opponents of raves seek to outlaw the parties and the people who organize or host them, contending that rave parties are "drug orgies" that exist exclusively for the rampant use and trafficking of dangerous substances. Proponents retort that people attend raves primarily for the love of a new music genre, to dance, to participate in the social scene, and that recreational drugs at music events are infused in the culture of youth, irregardless of raves. Moreover, at most raves, attendees are either not using drugs at all or are using relatively benign substances in a reduced-risk manner, and that a typical rock/rap concert or major sporting event is rife with far more rampant consumption of much more dangerous substances.
The Internet and low cost home computerss have been revolutionary to the development of digital electronic music, MP3, music mix and swapping web sites, and creating a high speed communicating and sharing "global village". These improvements have been instantaneously been adopted by ravers and rave D.J.'s since the beginning of the public World Wide Web in 1993.
Famous raves (rave series):
See also:
- Mayday Germany 1991 - today: http://www.mayday.de
- Nature One Germany 1995 - today: http://www.nature-one.de
- Tunnel Rave Germany 1995 - ??
- Time Warp Germany 1995 - today: http://www.time-warp.de
- Rave on Snow Austria ??- today: http://www.raveonsnow.de
- Rave and Cruise Mediterreanean Sea 1997 - 2001
- Nocturnal Wonderland Los Angeles U.S.A. 1997? - today
- Together as One Los Angeles U.S.A. New Years Eve, 1998- today
- J18 Carnival Against Capitalism - London, UK 1999
- rave music for music and music styles at raves
- raver for rave culture
External links
- Rave FAQ from 1995
- Hyperreal - the original rave resource on the Net
- http://www.ravelinks.com
- ABC News: Feds Crack Down on 'Raves'
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rave party."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
rave | English | Radar acquisition vocal-tracking equipment | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: RaveSynonyms: gush (v), jabber (v), mouth off (v), rabbit on (v), rant (v), spout (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disapprobation | Execrate; exprobate, speak daggers, vituperate; abuse, abuse like a pickpocket; scold, rate, objurgate, upbraid, fall foul of; jaw; rail, rail at, rail in good set terms; bark at; anathematize, call names; call by hard names, call by ugly names; avile, revile; vilify, vilipend; bespatter; backbite; clapperclaw; rave against, thunder against, fulminate against; load with reproaches. |
Excitability | Lose one's temper; break out, burst out, fly out; go off, fly off, fly off at a tangent, fly off the handle, lose one's cool; explode, flare up, flame up, fire up, burst into a flame, take fire, fire, burn; boil, boil over; foam, fume, rage, rave, rant, tear; go wild, run wild, run mad, go into hysterics; run riot, run amuck; battre la campagne, faire le diable a quatre, play the deuce. |
Excitation | Be excited; Adjective: flush up, flare up; catch the infection; thrill; (feel); mantle; work oneself up; seethe, boil, simmer, foam, fume, flame, rage, rave; run mad; (passion). |
Insanity | Rave, dote, ramble, wander; drivel; (be imbecile); have a screw loose; Noun: have a devil; avoir le diable au corps; lose one;s head; (be uncertain). |
Speech | Hold forth; make a speech,.deliver a speech; Noun: speechify, harangue, declaim, stump, flourish, recite, lecture, sermonize, discourse, be on one's legs; have one's say, say one's say; spout, rant, rave, vent one's fury, vent one's rage; expatiate; (speak at length); speak one's mind, go on the stump, take the stump. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Rave |
| English words defined with "rave": Debacchate, Delirate ♦ Mad ♦ Raved ♦ To tear a cat. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "rave": D.J. ho ♦ E-bomb ♦ flame on ♦ jaded raver ♦ map point ♦ old schooler ♦ rave on! ♦ speaker freaker. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "rave": maenad. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Rave" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (rave, root), German (rave), Italian (rave), Tahitian (to take). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Welcome to my rave! (One On One; writing credit: Rich Allen; Lane Sarasohn) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Rave (2000) Crime Rave (1939) Hear 'Em Rave (1918) Return of the Living Dead 4: Rave from the Grave (2003) Rave Sexxx 2 (2002) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Five minutes after they helped push in the old jalopy into the wrecking company's lot, Scouts Norman Vitting (right) and Bill Rave watch attentively while Chas. Revell of the wrecking crew starts the wrecking job. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Groove parade 4" by Matias Kriando Commentary: "A rave party outside barcelona." | "Friends" by Guiga Müller Commentary: "Me and my friend, Leslie, in a RAVE party (07/06)." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | While others sing, you will rave. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Rave" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.46% of the time. "Rave" is used about 311 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 87.46% | 272 | 17,812 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 5.47% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.86% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.25% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (common) | 0.64% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.32% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 311 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "rave" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Rave | Last name | 300 | 29,778 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "rave": it's all the rave ♦ rant and rave ♦ rave about ♦ rave against ♦ rave it up ♦ rave on ♦ rave on! ♦ rave oneself hoarse ♦ rave over ♦ rave review. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "rave": rave-dance, rave-friendly, rave-goer, rave-in, rave-oriented, rave-pop, rave-speak, rave-up. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
rave | 3,342 | rave sex | 47 |
rave motion picture | 619 | rave flyer | 46 |
rave clothing | 370 | dallas rave | 46 |
rave girl | 325 | rave light | 45 |
rave theater | 280 | rave video | 42 |
rave clothing store | 236 | houston rave | 42 |
rave picture | 236 | dancing rave | 41 |
rave movie theater | 207 | master rave | 39 |
rave party | 180 | rave club | 38 |
rave store | 175 | clown joke party rave | 37 |
rave clothes | 165 | rave theatres | 37 |
rave music | 149 | florida rave | 37 |
rave pic | 149 | toronto rave | 36 |
groove adventure rave | 121 | rave drug | 36 |
rave links | 79 | rave sports | 35 |
rave movie | 76 | milwaukee rave | 35 |
rave teen | 66 | rave culture | 35 |
rave act | 65 | girl rave store | 34 |
dance at a rave | 64 | montreal rave | 34 |
texas rave | 51 | rave wear | 33 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "rave"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tërbim (exasperation, experience, furor, fury, hydrophobia, ire, lyssa, madness, rabies, rage, ragging, rampage, rampancy, wrath), shfrej (rave about, slake, vent, wreak), përçartje (delirium, ramble, rant, raving), kllapi (delirium, ramble), jermoj, furi (frenzy, fury, rage, vehemence), flas përçart (be delirious), entuziazmohem (become enthusiastic, carry away). (various references) | |
Arabic | هذيان (babbler, hallucination, irrational talk, piffle, raving), هذى (maunder, piffle), هاجم بعنف (assail, batter, inveigh, oversteer, savage, storm), هاج (carry along, carry away, excite, fling about, flush, fluster, inflame, kindle, ramp, seethe, thrill, toss, vex), نقد (cash, commentary, criticism, criticize, critique, money, paper, recourse, review), تكلم بحماسة مفرطة, تقريظي, عصف (blow, storm), خرف (become senile, childishness, divagation, doddering, dotage, ramble, rambling, rant, senile, senility), إفتنان (adoration, enchantment), إحتفل (celebrate, feast one's eyes, fete, high time to, lionize, party, push out, solemnize), إحتد (carry away), إطرائي, إطراء (applause, compliment, flattery, panegyric). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ярост (Bate, desperation, frenzy, fury, ire, madness, paddywhack, passion, rabidity, rage, tear, violence, wax), рев (bawl, bluster, cry, hoot, howl, roan, roar, roaring, squall, trumpet, yell), ритла, шумна веселба (high jinks, rave-up, razzle, razzle-dazzle, riot, shindig, spree, whoop-de-do), говоря с ярост, говоря несвързано (meander, ramble, slummock, wander), възторжена критика, вой (clamor, clamour, cry, howl, wail, whine, yawl, yowl), вилнея (ballyrag, rage, ramp, rampage, run amok, run amuck, run wild, stalk), любовно увлечение, бълнувам (ramble, wander), бяс (fury, hydrophobia, ire, madness, rabidity, rabies, rage), беснея (foam, rage, raise cain, ramp, run amok, run amuck, storm). (various references) | |
Chinese | 胡言乱语, 怒吼 (bellow, snarl). (various references) | |
Czech | zuřit (bluster, rage, rampage, see red, storm), zmítat se (writhe), vztekat se (bluster), třeštit (be delirious), odvázat se (let it all hang out, unbutton, unfasten), nadšená kritika, módní hit, blouznit (be delirious, daydream, enthuse, ramble, wander). (various references) | |
Dutch | krankzinnig zijn, krankzinnig zýn (act crazy), house-party. (various references) | |
Esperanto | frenezi (act crazy). (various references) | |
Farsi | غوغا (Affray, Clamor, Din, Fray, Hubbub, Jangle, Melee, Mob, Pandemonium, Peal, Riot, Rumpus, Scrimmage, Scuffle, Tumult, Turmoil, Uproar), جاروجنجال راه انداختن , دیوانه شدن (Madden), دیوانگی (Amuck, Craze, Delirium, Insanity, Mania, Rage), بابیحوصلگی حرف زدن . (various references) | |
Finnish | hourailla (be delirious, wander). (various references) | |
French | rave, tempêter (rage, rant and rave), s'emporter, parler avec enthousiasme, house party, faire rage contre (rage), divaguer (ramble, rant), delirium, délirer, être fou, être démonté. (various references) | |
German | schwärmen (abound, daydream, dream, enthuse, fancy, go into raptures, gush, lionize, rhapsodize, romanticize, swarm, to rave, to rhapsodize, worship), rasen (belt, career, court, dash, field, grass, green, hurtle, lawn, lawns, pitch, power, race, rage, raging, scorch, sod, spin along, sward, tear, to rave, to rush, turf, turfs). (various references) | |
Greek | παραληρώ (be delirious), ενθουσιώδης (avid, exuberant, glowing, jubilant), αφαρπάζομαι (carry away), ουρλιάζω (bellow, blare, clamor, clamour, holler, howl, snarl, ululate, yell, yelp, yowl), διθυραμβικός. (various references) | |
Hebrew | להשתולל (act up, go haywire, make mischief, racket), להזות (daydream), לדבר בהתלהבות רבה, לדבר בטרוף (rant), בקורת נלהבת. (various references) | |
Hungarian | lelkesedés (ardor, ardour, eagerness, enthusiasm, exaltation, high spirits, infatuation, verve, warmth, zeal, zest), vendégoldal, szekéroldal, kocsioldal. (various references) | |
Icelandic | tala í óráði (act crazy). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sambutan hangat, mencacau (be fickle, be nervous). (various references) | |
Italian | rave, muggito (bellowing, lowing, moo, roar), infuriarsi (rage), infuriare (bluster, flare up, fly into a rage, rage, storm), farneticare (chat), delirio (delirium, raving), delirare (wander), andare in estasi (to couch, to go on the nod, to mong out, to nod, to nod off). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 絶賛 (great admiration, high praise, rave reviews), 絶讃 (great admiration, high praise, rave reviews), 狂い回る (to rave, to run amuck). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぜっさん (adding up, great admiration, high praise, rave reviews, totalling), くるいまわる (to rave, to run amuck). (various references) | |
Manx | rouailley (confusion, delerium, deviousness, incoherence, mix up, prowl, rambling, wander), railley (rail, rail track, railway). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | averay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | rugir (bellow, growl, howl, roar), tresvariar, frenesi (frenzy, furor, furore, fury, phrenitis, raving), fúria (fierceness, furor, furore, fury, madness, rabidity, rage, rush, violence), falar incoerentemente, excitação (commotion, fidget, fire, flurry, flush, fluster, flutter, freak-out, fuss, gale, passion, rampage, raving, state, stew, stimulus, thrill, transport, uproar, warmth), divagação (abracadabra, digression, divagation, excursion, excursus, raving), desvario (raving), delirar, delírio (frenzy, furor, furore, light-headedness, phrenitis, raving). (various references) | |
Romanian | recenzie sau criticã exageratã de favoare, vorbe goale (bumkum, hot air, lip service, mere words, palaver, phrase-mongering, wind), urla (bluster, call, cry, hoot, howl, rage, roar, set up a howl, squall, wail, yell, yowl), fi agitat (be in a fever, be on fire), delira (be delirious), şuieratul vântului, şuiera (hiss, ping, sing, whistle, whizz, zip), aiura (ass about, drivel, ramble, stray). (various references) | |
Russian | реветь (bray, roared), рев (blubber, howl, roar), говорить восторженно, говорить бессвязно (be incoherent, slummock), восторженный отзыв (glowing account, rave review), бушевать (bluster, rage, ramp, stormed, tempest), бредить восторженный, бредить (be delirious, raved), бред (d.t.'s, delirium, ramble, raving, wanderings), бессвязная речь (splutter, sputter). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ushićena kritika, prikaz (display, notice, representation, review, shew), buncati (rant), besneti (be furious, fulminate, rage, tempest). (various references) | |
Spanish | delirar. (various references) | |
Swedish | yra (be delirious, delirium, frenzy, snowstorm, whirl), svärma (spoon, swarm), rasa (bluster, fall down, fulminate, gallop, rage, romp, skylark, tumble). (various references) | |
Thai | พูดเพ้อเจ้อ. (various references) | |
Turkish | saçmalamak (blah blah, blather, blether, drivel, drool, flap, gab, gas, piffle, rot, talk nonsense, talk through one's hat, talk wild, twaddle, waffle, yap), kudurmak (be attacked by rabies, fume, going mad, lash oneself into a fury, rage, ramp, rampage, seethe), kasanın kenarlarına takılan parmaklıklar, kamyon kasasını yükseltmek için takılan tahtalar, küplere binmek (be hopping mad, flame up, flare, flare out, flash out, flip one's lid, get into a rage, have one's hackles up, ramp and rage), hayran olmak (admire, hero worship, rave about, think the world of), deli olmak (be crazy for, be mad, be mad about, be off, be wild about, have a fit, rave about), deli olma, coşkulu tezahürat (ringing cheers), coşku (ebullition, ecstasy, effervescence, elation, enthusiasm, excitement, exuberance, exuberancy, furor, furore, glow, gush, rhapsody, spring tide, temperament, yeast), abuk sabuk konuşmak (ramble, wander), çılgınlık (craze, craziness, delirium, distraction, escapade, fad, foolhardiness, frenzy, fury, lunacy, madness, nuts, rabidness, raving, ravings, vagary, wildness), çılgın parti (rave-up), çıldırmak (be nuts, be out of one's senses, flip, flip out, go bananas, go berserker, go crazy, go mad, go nuts, loose one's senses, round the bend). (various references) | |
Turkmen | basyrganmak (rant and rave). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ревіння (bellow, blubber, howl, howling, roaring), говорити із запалом, марення (delirium, ramble, raving, wanderings), марити (see things, wander), захоплюватися (addict, admire, applaud, enthuse, go for, take away), закоханість (amorousness, love). (various references) | |
Welsh | ynfydu (be mad), ymgynddeiriogi (rage), gwallgofi (go mad), gorffwyllo. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | bacchide, bacchidi, bacchidis, dementasset, dementes, dementis, fur, furatur, fure, furentur, furere, fureres, fureret, fureris, fures, furetur, furis, furor, morari, phur, saevi, saeviat, saevientes, saevis, vaticinabantur, vaticinans, vaticinantium, vaticinantur, vaticinare, vaticinaris, vaticinatus. (various references) |
| Dutch | 700-Modern | randten. (various references) |
| Middle English | 1100-1500 | ramp. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "rave": raved, ravel, raveled, raveler, ravelers, ravelin, raveling, ravelings, ravelins, ravelled, raveller, ravellers, ravelling, ravellings, ravelly, ravelment, ravelments, ravels, raven, ravened, ravener, raveners, ravening, ravenings, ravenous, ravenously, ravenousness, ravenousnesses, ravens, raver, ravers, raves. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "rave": architrave, brave, burgrave, crave, deprave, drave, engrave, grave, margrave, outbrave, outrave, palsgrave, photoengrave, reengrave, thrave, trave. (additional references) | |
Words containing "rave": architraves, braved, bravely, braver, braveries, bravers, bravery, braves, bravest, burgraves, caravel, caravels, contravene, contravened, contravener, contraveners, contravenes, contravening, contravention, contraventions, craved, craven, cravened, cravening, cravenly, cravenness, cravennesses, cravens, craver, cravers, craves, depraved, depravedly, depravedness, depravednesses, depravement, depravements, depraver, depravers, depraves, engraved, engraver, engravers, engraves, extravehicular, extraversion, extraversions, extravert, extraverted, extraverts, graved. (additional references) | |
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"Rave" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aave, Arava, arev, arove, Arva, arve, Arvi, Arvo, drave, eravi, frave, krava, krave, Krbava, prave, Raabe, raae, Raeve, rafe, rafo, rafvr, rahe, raiva, raoe, raue, Rav, Rava, Ravar, raveg, Ravem, ravey, ravi, ravie, Ravik, ravio, Raviv, ravk, ravl, Ravn, ravy, rawe, raxe, reev, rerve, reve, revee, revem, revew, revi, revo, Revoe, revre, revu, revvy, revy, Rfvi, riav, Ritvo, rivi, rivo, rivy, roave, rova, rovea, rovey, rovi, Rva, rvd, ryva, ryve, trave, wrave. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "rave" (pronounced rā"v) |
| 3 | r ā" v | brave, crave, deprave, engrave, grave. |
| 2 | -ā" v | behave, cave, concave, enslave, forgave, gave, knave, lave, misbehave, nave, pave, save, shave, shortwave, slave, stave, waive, wave. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: aver, vera. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-r-v" | |
-1 letter: are, ave, ear, era, rev, var. | |
-2 letters: ae, ar, er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-r-v" | |
+1 letter: aiver, avers, avert, brave, carve, caver, crave, drave, grave, haver, laver, parve, paver, raved, ravel, raven, raver, raves, reave, saver, trave, varve, velar, waver. | |
+2 letters: adverb, advert, aivers, arrive, averse, averts, avower, beaver, braved, braver, braves, carved, carvel, carven, carver, carves, cavern, cavers, claver, craved, craven, craver, craves, evader, garvey, graved, gravel, graven, graver, graves, greave, havers, heaver, jarvey, larvae, laveer, lavers, leaver, lekvar, marvel, naiver, pareve, pavers, quaver, ravage, ravels, ravens, ravers, ravine, reaved, reaver, reaves, reavow, regave, repave, revamp, reveal, rivage, salver, savers, serval, shaver, slaver, starve, suaver, tavern, thrave, travel, traves, vaguer, vainer, valuer, vamper, vanner, varied, varier, varies, varlet, varved, varves, vaster, vealer, velars, verbal, vernal, versal, waiver, wavers, wavery, wavier, weaver, wharve. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Usage Frequency 11. Names: Frequency 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Translations: Ancient 16. Abbreviations | 17. Acronyms 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Bibliography |
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