rapture
Syllables: rap·tureUK/ˈɹæpt͡ʃəː/
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New Zealand/ˈɹɛptʃɘː/
rapture noun: extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement. Also the alternative letter-case form of Rapture.
Noun
rapture (countable and uncountable, plural raptures)
- Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
- They went into raptures about the meal they'd had.
- Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture[…]1712 June 24 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “FRIDAY, June 14, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 407; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New...
- The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
- Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.
- 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.
- That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash / With headlong rapture.1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615...
- With the rapture of great winds to blow / About earth's shaken coignes.1888, James Russell Lowell, Agassiz, 6.1.21
- A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.
- Your pratling nurse
Into a rapture lets her baby cryc. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- Your pratling nurse
Verb
rapture (third-person singular simple present raptures, present participle rapturing, simple past and past participle raptured)
- To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.
- She raptured me in summer by giving me Fitzgerald's flawed and gorgeous masterpiece, the book that held his tortured heart.2012, The Books They Gave Me: True Stories of Life, Love, and Lit, page 138
- To experience great happiness or excitement.
- To take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
- "If she's raptured," Ellen said to them on the fifth night after Marylee's disappearance, as they sat on the roof of the building on their old beanbags and rusting garden furniture hauled up from the Museum, "if that's what happened to her, then […]"2001, Allan Appel, Club Revelation: A Novel, page 320
- These fiction books told the story of some church people who were raptured but focused on the people who were not raptured.2007, Leon L. Combs, A Search For Reality, page 46
- To take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
- To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.
- And then the flowers! May-day indeed. Hester had been in Switzerland at the end of June, years on years before, and often had she raptured to Effie about the day's ride, in which they collected a hundred varieties of flowers, most of them new to them.1885, Edward Everett Hale, G.T.T.; or, The Wonderful Adventures of a Pullman, page 158
- Pulling her leggings down over unshaven legs, she raptured "I'm dry!" to her audience.2003, Jessica Peers, Asparagus Dreams, page 75
Proper noun capitalized: Rapture
the Rapture
- In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, a prophesied sudden removal of Christian believers from the Earth before the Tribulation or simultaneous with the second coming of Jesus Christ.
- The end of the world will be at exactly 6 p.m. on May 21, 2011, says Camping, who along with his organization, Family Radio, are behind those billboards across the country forecasting the Rapture this Saturday. The Rapture, the Last Days, Armageddon and the Final Days of Judgment are all...2011 May 20, Tina Dupuy, “The Rapture Is Not Saturday; It's Tonight”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 10 Jan 2012
- Brian J Dunn points out an aspect of the Rapture I hadn't considered: thousands, even millions, of new housing vacancies coming onto an already oversaturated market. If you notice your more religious neighbors go missing at 6 pm this evening, you should be prepared for the possibility that not only...2011 May 21, Megan McArdle, “The Housing Market is Not Rapture Ready”, in The Atlantic
Also used as
rapture is also the alternative letter-case form of Rapture.
rapture meaning in Marathi, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
rapture in Marathi
- रॅप्चर, रॅपचर
rapture in Urdu
- ریپچر, ریپچرنگ
rapture in Bengali
- র্যাপচার, র্যাপচার করার জন্য, র্যাপচার করতে
rapture in Telugu
- ర్యాప్చర్
More languagesFewer languages
- rapture in Malayalam
- റാപ്റ്റർ ചെയ്യാനായി, റാപ്റ്റർ ചെയ്യുവാനായി
- rapture in Kannada
- ರ್ಯಾಪ್ಚರ್
- rapture in Punjabi
- ਰੈਪਚਰ, ਰੈਪਚਰਿੰਗ
- rapture in Odia
- ର୍ଯ଼ାପ୍ଚର୍, ର୍ଯ଼ାପଚର
- rapture in Nepali
- र्याप्चर, र्याप्चरिंग, र्याप्चर गर्न
- rapture in Arabic
- طَرَب ṭarab, نَشْوَة našwa
Examples of rapture in a sentence
- 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.1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp....
- The third person raptured by God into heaven was Elijah […]2010, Gerald Mizejewski, Jerimiah Asher, Charting the Supernatural Judgements of Planet Earth, page 233:
- “Praise the Lord, he's been raptured.” Good grief.2011, Lexi George, Demon Hunting in Dixie, →ISBN:
- They're called angora with wonderfully long, soft fleece,” she raptured on about her first venture.2003, Beverly Adam, Irish Magic, page 121:
Forms of rapture
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | raptures |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | raptures |
| present participle | rapturing |
| past participle | raptured |
| past | raptured |
Origin of rapture
Borrowed from Middle French rapture, from Latin raptūra, future active participle of rapiō (“snatch, carry off”).
Words formed from rapture
Words that rhyme with rapture
Questions about rapture
- What does rapture mean?
- Rapture means extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
- What is rapture in Marathi?
- Rapture in Marathi is रॅप्चर, रॅपचर. See Rapture meaning in Marathi.
- How do you use rapture in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is rapture?
- Rapture can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce rapture?
- Rapture is pronounced /ˈɹæpt͡ʃəː/ (UK).
- What is the plural of rapture?
- The plural of rapture is raptures.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: rapture (page history and authors); Rapture (page history and authors); rapture (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rapture (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rapture (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rapture (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rapture (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rapture (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rapture (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rapture (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rapture (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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