Definitions for rapture
ˈræp tʃərrap·ture

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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

2. ecstasy, rapture(noun)

   a state of elated bliss

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. rapture(Noun)

   Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.

2. rapture(Noun)

   In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living believers. (Usually "the rapture.")

3. rapture(Noun)

   The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.

4. rapture(Noun)

   Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.

5. 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.

6. rapture(Verb)

   to experience great happiness or excitement

7. rapture(Verb)

   to cause to experience great happiness or excitement

8. rapture(Verb)

   to take part in the Rapture

9. Rapture(ProperNoun)

   a prophesied sudden removal of Christian believers from the Earth before the Tribulation or simultaneous with the second coming of Jesus Christ

Origin: rapere, to take away or snatch out.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Rapture(noun)

   a seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence

2. 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

3. Rapture(noun)

   a spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium

4. Rapture(verb)

   to transport with excitement; to enrapture

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1. 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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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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1. rapture

   Song lyrics by rapture -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by rapture on the Lyrics.com website.

How to pronounce rapture?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of rapture in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of rapture in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of rapture in a Sentence

1. Allison Kearney:

   Laughter is complete rapture vocalized.

2. Publius Ovidius NasoOvid:

   The glow of inspiration warms us it is a holy rapture.

3. D. H. Lawrence:

   We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive - and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

4. Ben Carson:

   I don't believe in a secret rapture, where people just, he's just sitting here one minute and he disappears.

5. George Gordon Byron:

   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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