rave

Meanings

1. An enthusiastic review (such as of a play).
2. A large-scale dance party with strobe lights and fast-paced electronic dance music, often illegally organized open-air or in underground venues.
3. The genres of electronic dance music made to be played in rave parties.

1. To be mentally unclear; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.
2. To speak or write wildly or incoherently.
3. To talk with excessive enthusiasm, passion or excitement.
4. To rush wildly or furiously.
5. To attend a rave (dance party).

1. To wander or roam.
2. To stray or err.

1. One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.

1. simple past of rive

1. A surname.

Etymology

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