rapture
21rapture — raptureless, adj. /rap cheuhr/, n., v. raptured, rapturing. n. 1. ecstatic joy or delight; joyful ecstasy. 2. Often, raptures. an utterance or expression of ecstatic delight. 3. the carrying of a person to another place or sphere of existence. 4 …
22rapture — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. ecstasy, transport, bliss, joy, delight. See pleasure. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Delight] Syn. happiness, pleasure, joy, satisfaction, enjoyment, felicity, exhilaration, contentment, gladness,… …
23rapture — rap|ture [ˈræptʃə US ər] n [U] [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: rapt] 1.) literary great excitement and happiness ▪ The boys gazed up at him in rapture. 2.) be in raptures/go into raptures BrE formal to express or feel great pleasure and happiness about …
24rapture — rap|ture [ ræptʃər ] noun uncount LITERARY a feeling of great happiness or excitement be in rapture/raptures to feel extremely happy or excited into raptures into an extremely happy and excited state: The team s win sent the fans into raptures …
25rapture — noun (U) 1 great excitement and happiness: He stared with rapture at his baby son. 2 go into raptures to express great pleasure and happiness about something (+ over/about/at): She went into raptures about the climate, the food, the spring… …
26rapture — UK [ˈræptʃə(r)] / US [ˈræptʃər] noun [uncountable] literary a feeling of great happiness or excitement • be in rapture/raptures to be in an extremely happy or excited state, and show this by what you say They were all in raptures over the new… …
27rapture — n. 1 a ecstatic delight, mental transport. b (in pl.) great pleasure or enthusiasm or the expression of it. 2 archaic the act of transporting a person from one place to another. Phrases and idioms: go into (or be in) raptures be enthusiastic;… …
28Rapture (disambiguation) — Rapture may refer to:In religion:* Rapture, a predicted event in certain systems of Christian eschatology * Rapture (Buddhism), a common translation of the Pali word, piti , which is a factor of meditative absorptionIn literature:* Rapture (book) …
29Rapture Ready — is one of the largest and oldest Evangelical Christian sites on the Internet. It was founded in 1987 by Todd Strandberg. In the late 1980s, there were no websites as we know them today. Most people accessed the internet through text only displays …
30Rapture (band) — Rapture is a doom metal/melodic death metal band formed in 1997 by a group of musicians from Helsinki, Finland. The members of Rapture have played in several bands, including Barathrum, Diablerie, Ensiferum, Finntroll, Fragile Hollow, The Mist… …
