rapter
rapter is the obsolete form of raptor.
rapter is the comparative form of rapt.
Meaning of raptor
Noun (1)
raptor (plural raptors)
- A bird of prey.
- One who ravishes or plunders.
Noun (2)
raptor (plural raptors)
- One of the dromaeosaurs, a family of carnivorous dinosaurs having tearing claws on the hind legs.
Meaning of rapt
Adjective
rapt (comparative more rapt or (less common) rapter, superlative most rapt or (less common) raptest)
- Snatched, taken away; abducted.
- And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt / The whirring chariot.[1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer...
- Lifted up into the air; transported into heaven.
- Very interested, involved in something, absorbed, transfixed; fascinated or engrossed.
- The children watched in rapt attention as the magician produced object after object from his hat.
- Enthusiastic; ecstatic, elated, happy.
- He was rapt with his exam results.
Forms of rapter
| plural | rapters |
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Origin of rapter
From Middle English raptour, from Latin raptor (“kidnapper, thief”).
From rapt + -er.
Questions about rapter
- What is rapter the obsolete form of?
- Rapter is the obsolete form of raptor.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: rapter (page history and authors); raptor (page history and authors); rapt (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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