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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024rap•ture /ˈræptʃɚ/USA pronunciation n., v., -tured, -tur•ing.
n. - [uncountable] overwhelming joy or delight;
ecstasy. - [countable] Often, raptures. [plural] an expression of ecstatic delight.
rap•tur•ous, adj. See -rape-.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024rap•ture (rap′chər),USA pronunciation n., v. -tured, -tur•ing.— n. - ecstatic joy or delight;
joyful ecstasy. - Often, raptures. an utterance or expression of ecstatic delight.
- the carrying of a person to another place or sphere of existence.
- Theology, Religion the Rapture, the experience, anticipated by some fundamentalist Christians, of meeting Christ midway in the air upon his return to earth.
- [Archaic.]the act of carrying off.
v.t. - to enrapture.
rap′ture•less, adj. - 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged bliss, beatitude; transport, exaltation. See ecstasy.
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged misery.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: rapture /ˈræptʃə/ n - the state of mind resulting from feelings of high emotion; joyous ecstasy
- (often plural) an expression of ecstatic joy
- the act of transporting a person from one sphere of existence to another, esp from earth to heaven
vb - (transitive) archaic or literary to entrance; enrapture
Etymology: 17th Century: from Medieval Latin raptūra, from Latin raptus rapt1 |