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All 4 letters words made out of rave

rave arve rvae vrae avre vare raev arev reav erav aerv earv rvea vrea reva erva vera evra aver vaer aevr eavr vear evar

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word rave. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in rave.

Definitions and meaning of rave

rave

Pronunciation

• enPR: rāv, IPA^(key): /ɹeɪv/
• Rhymes: -eɪv

Etymology 1

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

Noun

rave (countable and uncountable, plural raves)

1. (informal, countable) An enthusiastic review (such as of a play).

   Synonym: raving review
2. An all-night dance party with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) in small unknown clubs.

   Synonym: rave-up

3. (music, uncountable) The genres of electronic dance music maded to be played in rave parties.

Descendants

• → Finnish: reivit (pl)

Translations

Verb

rave (third-person singular simple present raves, present participle raving, simple past and past participle raved)

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

Derived terms

• rant and rave

Descendants

• → Finnish: reivata

Translations

See also

• rant

Etymology 2

English dialect raves, or rathes (“a frame laid on a wagon, for carrying hay, etc.”).

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Noun

rave (plural raves)

1. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.

Etymology 3

Verb

rave

1. (obsolete) simple past of rive

References

Anagrams

• AVRE, Vera, aver, evar, vare, vera

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan rave, from Latin raphănus, borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥάφανος (rháphanos). The medieval plural ravens (with retention of etymological /n/) survives in western Catalan dialects and Valencian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈra.βə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈra.və]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈra.ve]

Noun

rave m (plural raves or ravens)

1. radish
2. (figurative) trifle (thing of little importance or worth)

Derived terms

References

• “rave” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “rave” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /raːvə/, [ˈʁɑːwə]

Verb

rave (imperative rav, infinitive at rave, present tense raver, past tense ravede, perfect tense har ravet)

1. reel
2. stagger, totter, lurch

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

rave

1. inflection of raven:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive
   3. imperative

Anagrams

• vare

French

Etymology 1

Borrowed from a southern Gallo-Romance language (compare Occitan raba and Franco-Provençal râva; a native French form would have been *rève), from Latin rāpa, plural of rāpum, reinterpreted as a feminine singular. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *rap-. Compare Italian rapa and Venetian rava.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁav/

Noun

rave m (plural raves)

1. beet, turnip

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English rave.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛv/
• Homophone: rêve

Noun

rave m (plural raves)

1. rave party

   Synonym: rave party

Further reading

• “rave”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• rêva

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈraː.u̯e/, [ˈräːu̯ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈra.ve/, [ˈräːve]

Adjective

rāve

1. vocative masculine singular of rāvus

References

• rave in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Middle English

Noun

rave

1. Alternative form of reif

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English rave.

Pronunciation

Noun

rave f (plural raves)

1. rave (party)

Hypernyms

• festa

Further reading

• “rave” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “rave” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English rave.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈreib/ [ˈrei̯β̞]
• Rhymes: -eib

Noun

rave f (plural raves)

1. rave (party)

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Swedish

Alternative forms

• rejv

Noun

rave n

1. rave (all-night dance party with electronic music, or the associated culture)

   Synonym: (rave party) raveparty

Declension

Related terms

• rejva
• rejvare

References

• rave in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• rave in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Venetian

Noun

rave

1. plural of rava

Source: wiktionary.org