[ UK /ɹˈe‍ɪv/ ]
[ US /ˈɹeɪv/ ]
NOUN
  1. a dance party that lasts all night and electronically synthesized music is played
    raves are very popular in Berlin
  2. an extravagantly enthusiastic review
    he gave it a rave
VERB
  1. participate in an all-night techno dance party
  2. praise enthusiastically
    She raved about that new restaurant
  3. talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
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How To Use rave In A Sentence

  • Academic excellence was matched with extra-curricular activities of every description - from drama through sport to foreign travel.
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  • 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
  • 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
  • The heroic deeds of this brave and noble Irishman have brought honour and glory to his native land.
  • This construction of a new world order comes from a naïive and untraveled President, emboldened in his ignorance by advisors who have been plotting an aggressive Pax Americana ever since the Soviet bloc's collapse.
  • As the firm's engraver, he requires an artistic eye and a considerable amount of strength.
  • A recent issue of Gastroenterology reports on animal studies describing a swallowable capsule that can transmit video images as it travels through the small intestine.
  • It freewheeled down the hill and collided with the car in which Mrs Reilly and her daughter were travelling.
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