Rapture

Quick meaning: Rapture is a noun meaning Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.

Meaning

Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.

More Meanings

1. (Christianity with the) Alternative letter-case form of Rapture.
2. A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.
3. (obsolete) The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
4. (obsolete) Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.
5. (dated, transitive) To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.
6. (dated, intransitive) To experience great happiness or excitement.
7. (obsolete) 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.

Example Sentences

They went into raptures about the meal they'd had.

Your pratling nurse Into a rapture lets her baby cry

With the rapture of great winds to blow / About earth's shaken coignes.

That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash / With headlong rapture.

Word Forms

• raptures
• rapturing
• raptured

Synonyms for rapture

Depending on context, synonyms include ecstasy, exaltation, transport.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ecstasy, exaltation, transport, bliss, marvellous, marvelous.

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