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verb (used without object)

to speak or declaim extravagantly or violently; talk in a wild or vehement way; rave: The demagogue ranted for hours.

verb (used with object)

to utter or declaim in a ranting manner.

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noun

ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.

a ranting utterance.

Origin:
1590–1600; < Dutch ranten (obsolete) to talk foolishly

Related forms

rant·er, noun

rant·ing·ly, adverb

out·rant, verb (used with object)

un·rant·ing, adjective

Synonyms
3. bombast, extravagance.

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Example Sentences

In the realm of college admissions, today is a day to rejoice-or rant.

They are only enlivened by technical hitches and the occasional political rant by a drunken winner.

Brown begins his rant by insisting that mankind faces imminent food shortages.

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In the realm of college admissions, today is a day to rejoice-or rant.

They are only enlivened by technical hitches and the occasional political rant by a drunken winner.

Brown begins his rant by insisting that mankind faces imminent food shortages.

With electronics, this happens often enough to warrant a rant.

The knuckleheads who create policy or rant on probably never had a physical-type job.

Lets hear you rant about the claim below by one of your gurus.

Bradbury's latest political rant is filled with such diaphanous criticism.

There's a rant about too much regulation/taxation in the airline industry.

Since they have summers off, they had plenty of time to go to town hall meetings and rant against health care reform.

First, let me finish my rant about inverted scrolling.

Depressingly, another woman was engaged in an anti-immigration rant.

There you go again, sneaking in a poorly disguised political rant as a scientific article.

Danny tops off the podcast with an emo rant about the loss of this wonderful feature.

It certainly isn't to make a contribution because you don't seem to have a clue about anything you rant about.

Trying to decipher your usual mindless rant it appears you are unable to do even the simplest research and arithmetic.

Rather than develop a logical, well reasoned counter argument, you spewed irrelevant rant.

He took my long rant and turned it into a really nice blog post.

But let's not facts get in the way of a good theory or rant.

The entire left ideology is nothing but one long fear rant.

If you want to rant about your political feelings about gun ownership, get a live journal account.

OK, rant overhijack finishednothing to see here.

He's got a thoughtful and disturbing little rant here,.

More often it takes the form of a rant with little specificity.

The latest rant accused me of all sorts of things, some not accurate, some dots connected in ways that aren't logical or true.

There is a long rant inside me about this topic, and someday it will come out when it is better formed.

The rest of your apologist rant is not even worth replying to.

If things break, there will be a rant immediately following these words.

He may rant and rave and lecture, but he will have to adjust.

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World English Dictionary

rant (rænt)

—vb
1.	to utter (something) in loud, violent, or bombastic tones
2.	chiefly (Scot) (intr) to make merry; frolic

—n
3.	loud, declamatory, or extravagant speech; bombast
4.	chiefly (Scot) a wild revel
5.	(Scot) an energetic dance or its tune

[C16: from Dutch ranten to rave; related to German ranzen to gambol]

'ranter

—n

'ranting

—*adj*, —n

'rantingly

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

rant

1598, from Du. randten "talk foolishly, rave," of unknown origin (cf. Ger. rantzen "to frolic, spring about"). The noun is first attested 1649, from the verb. Ranters "antinomian sect which arose in England c.1645" is attested from 1651; applied 1823 to early Methodists. A 1700 slang dictionary has rantipole

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