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raptures

raptures is the plural of rapture.

raptures is the third-person singular simple present indicative of rapture.

Meaning of rapture

Noun

rapture (countable and uncountable, plural raptures)

  1. Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
    • They went into raptures about the meal they'd had.
  2. (obsolete) The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
  3. (obsolete) Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.
  4. (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.
    • 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...
  5. 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]...

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Questions about raptures

What is raptures the plural of?
Raptures is the plural of rapture.

Words near raptures in the dictionary

  1. rapts
  2. rapture
  3. rapture of the deep
  4. raptured
  5. raptureless
  6. raptures
  7. rapturesome
  8. rapturing
  9. rapturings
  10. rapturise
  11. rapturised

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