Meaning
5 senses(countable, uncountable)Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
They went into raptures about the meal they'd had.
Ekstase, Taumel, Verzückung
восто́ргvostórg, упое́ниеupojénije
(countable, uncountable)A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.
Krampfanfall
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)The act of carrying, conveying, transporting or sweeping along by force of movement; the force of such movement; the fact of being carried along by such movement.
- a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion
- a state of elated bliss
Examples
3 sentencesTom believes that the rapture is going to happen any day now.
According to Tom's calculations, the rapture is set to occur in exactly three years.
The pianist's performance of a Haydn sonata threw the woman into a rapture bordering on frenzy.
Translations
5 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 2
Origin
Borrowed from Middle French rapture, from Latin raptūra, future active participle of rapiōBorrowed from Middle French rapture, from Latin raptūra, future active participle of rapiō (“snatch, carry off”).
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Forms
plural: rapturesSynonyms
4 synonyms- a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion:ecstasytransportexaltationraptus
- a state of elated bliss:ecstasy
Word family
7 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.