An enthusiastic review (such as of a play).
The first-night audience, yes. The first-night reviewers, not exactly. The notices have so far been mixed, only The Financial Times having delivered itself of an unequivocal rave.
An all-night dance party with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) in small unknown clubs.
One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.
It was astonishing to see how he had gnawed the rave of the sled.
To be mentally unclear; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.
Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast?
To wander or roam.
A surname.
From Middle English raven (“to rave; talk like a madman”), from Old French raver, variant of resver, of uncertain origin. Compare rave below, and rove.
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simple past of rive