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UK
/ɹˈeɪv/
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[ US /ˈɹeɪv/ ]
[ US /ˈɹeɪv/ ]
NOUN
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a dance party that lasts all night and electronically synthesized music is played
raves are very popular in Berlin -
an extravagantly enthusiastic review
he gave it a rave
VERB
- participate in an all-night techno dance party
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praise enthusiastically
She raved about that new restaurant - talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
How To Use rave In A Sentence
- The boa and the rattlesnake are homebodies that seldom travel more than a couple of miles in a lifetime.
- My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
- Would reverse flow undergravel filtration be better?
- Academic excellence was matched with extra-curricular activities of every description - from drama through sport to foreign travel.
- When I looked at the chart a second time, I saw that there was a lot Michael had left out of his personal history; specifically, IVDU—intravenous drug use—dating back ten years, and a major depression that had led to a psychiatric hospitalization and ECT, electroconvulsive therapy. After the Diagnosis
- After putting its energy into the 2008 acquisition of Northwest Airlines, the Atlanta-based carrier plans to spend more than $2 billion through 2013 to lure travelers with new flat-bed seats, video on demand and upgraded facilities in hotly contested markets such as New York. Delta Refocuses
- Names will be taken from those who intend travelling on next year's pilgrimage to Lourdes.
- At around 11 am that day a pensioner foiled another attempted scam by a man and woman in Central Avenue, Gravesend.
- So why not give them a travel gadget that serves a dual purpose?
- The site aims to find you the best real-time prices on airfares by trawling 35 airlines and travel websites.