Usually means: Energetic dance party with music.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. rave: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rave: Merriam-Webster
  3. rave, rave: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rave: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rave: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rave: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rave, rave: Wordnik
  8. rave: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Rave, rave: Wiktionary
  10. rave: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. rave: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. rave: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Rave, rave: Dictionary.com
  14. rave (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. rave: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. RAVE (survey), Rave (board game), Rave (disambiguation), Rave (film), Rave (magazine), Rave, The Rave: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Rave: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. rave: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. rave: Rhymezone
  20. rave: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. rave: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. RAVE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. RAVE: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  24. rave: FreeDictionary.org
  25. rave: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. rave: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. rave: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. rave: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
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  3. rave: Encyclopedia

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  2. rave: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. RAVE: Acronym Finder
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  3. rave: Idioms

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. rave, rave, rave: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. rave: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Rave: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. R.A.V.E, R.A.V.E, RAVE: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See raved as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (informal, countable) An enthusiastic review (such as of a play).
noun:  An all-night dance party with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) in small unknown clubs.
noun:  (music, uncountable) The genres of electronic dance music made to be played in rave parties.
verb:  (intransitive) To be mentally unclear; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.
verb:  (intransitive) To speak or write wildly or incoherently.
verb:  (intransitive, followed by "about", "of" or (formerly) "on") To talk with excessive enthusiasm, passion or excitement.
verb:  (obsolete) To rush wildly or furiously.
verb:  (intransitive) To attend a rave (dance party).
noun:  One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.
noun:  A surname.

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