What does rapture mean?
Definitions for rapture
ˈræp tʃərrap·ture
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Princeton's WordNet
ecstasy, rapture, transport, exaltation, raptus(noun)
a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion
"listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens
ecstasy, rapture(noun)
a state of elated bliss
Wiktionary
rapture(Noun)
Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
Etymology: rapere, to take away or snatch out.
rapture(Noun)
In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living believers. (Usually "the rapture.")
Etymology: rapere, to take away or snatch out.
rapture(Noun)
The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
Etymology: rapere, to take away or snatch out.
rapture(Noun)
Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.
Etymology: rapere, to take away or snatch out.
rapture(Noun)
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.
Etymology: rapere, to take away or snatch out.
rapture(Verb)
to experience great happiness or excitement
Etymology: rapere, to take away or snatch out.
rapture(Verb)
to cause to experience great happiness or excitement
Etymology: rapere, to take away or snatch out.
rapture(Verb)
to take part in the Rapture
Etymology: rapere, to take away or snatch out.
Rapture(ProperNoun)
a prophesied sudden removal of Christian believers from the Earth before the Tribulation or simultaneous with the second coming of Jesus Christ
Etymology: rapere, to take away or snatch out.
Webster Dictionary
Rapture(noun)
a seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence
Rapture(noun)
the state or condition of being rapt, or carried away from one's self by agreeable excitement; violence of a pleasing passion; extreme joy or pleasure; ecstasy
Rapture(noun)
a spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium
Rapture(verb)
to transport with excitement; to enrapture
Freebase
Rapture
The Rapture is an indie rock band based in New York City. The band mixes influences from many genres including post-punk, acid house, disco, electronica and rock, pioneering the post-punk revival genre. They were forerunners of the post-punk revival of the early 2000s, as they mixed their early post-punk sound with electronic and dance elements.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Rapture
rap′tūr, n. a seizing and carrying away: extreme delight: transport: ecstasy.—adj. Rap′tūred.—n. Rap′tūrist (Spens.), one filled with rapture.—adj. Rap′tūrous, seizing and carrying away: ecstatic.—adv. Rap′tūrously.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of rapture in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of rapture in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of rapture in a Sentence
We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive - and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.
Laughter is complete rapture vocalized.
There was no bigger album of 2014 -- in terms of surprise, generosity and controversy, bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. put their lives on the line: giving away 11 songs of guitar rapture and frank, emotional tales of how they became a band out of the rough streets and spiritual ferment of Seventies Dublin.
The glow of inspiration warms us it is a holy rapture.
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
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