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rapture (noun)

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  • rapture — Ⅰ. rapture ► NOUN 1) intense pleasure or joy. 2) (raptures) the expression of intense pleasure or enthusiasm. DERIVATIVES rapturously adverb. Ⅱ. rapturous ► ADJECTIVE …   English terms dictionary

  • rapture — noun she gazed at him in rapture go into raptures Syn: ecstasy, bliss, exaltation, euphoria, elation, joy, enchantment, delight, happiness, pleasure •• rapture, bliss, ecstasy, euphoria, transport Happiness is one thing; bliss is another,… …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • rapture — noun 1》 a feeling of intense pleasure or joy. 2》 (raptures) the expression of intense pleasure or enthusiasm. 3》 (the Rapture) N. Amer. (according to some millenarian teaching) the transporting of believers to heaven at the second coming of… …   English new terms dictionary

  • rapture — noun (U) 1 great excitement and happiness: He stared with rapture at his baby son. 2 go into raptures to express great pleasure and happiness about something (+ over/about/at): She went into raptures about the climate, the food, the spring… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • Rapture — noun the sudden removal of Christian believers from the Earth before the Tribulation and the return of Jesus Christ …   Wiktionary

  • rapture — 1. noun a) Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement. My heart filled with rapture then, and it fills now as it has each of the countless times I have recalled those dear words, as it shall fill always until death has claimed me. I may never see… …   Wiktionary

  • rapture — [17] Rapture is one of a large family of English words that go back ultimately to Latin rapere ‘seize by force’. Its past participle was raptus (source of English rapt [14]), which formed the basis of the medieval Latin noun raptūra ‘seizure’,… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • rapture — [17] Rapture is one of a large family of English words that go back ultimately to Latin rapere ‘seize by force’. Its past participle was raptus (source of English rapt [14]), which formed the basis of the medieval Latin noun raptūra ‘seizure’,… …   Word origins

  • rapture — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. ecstasy, transport, bliss, joy, delight. See pleasure. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Delight] Syn. happiness, pleasure, joy, satisfaction, enjoyment, felicity, exhilaration, contentment, gladness,… …   English dictionary for students

  • rapture — rap|ture [ ræptʃər ] noun uncount LITERARY a feeling of great happiness or excitement be in rapture/raptures to feel extremely happy or excited into raptures into an extremely happy and excited state: The team s win sent the fans into raptures …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • rapture — UK [ˈræptʃə(r)] / US [ˈræptʃər] noun [uncountable] literary a feeling of great happiness or excitement • be in rapture/raptures to be in an extremely happy or excited state, and show this by what you say They were all in raptures over the new… …   English dictionary

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