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rant

  [rant]
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–verb (used without object)
1. to speak or declaim extravagantly or violently; talk in a wild or vehement way; rave: The demagogue ranted for hours.
–verb (used with object)
2. to utter or declaim in a ranting manner.
–noun
3. ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
4. a ranting utterance.
Origin:
1590–1600; < D ranten (obs.) to talk foolishly

Related forms:
ranter, noun
rant⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
3. bombast, extravagance.
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rant   (rānt)   
v.   rant·ed, rant·ing, rants

v.   intr.
To speak or write in an angry or violent manner; rave.
v.   tr.
To utter or express with violence or extravagance: a dictator who ranted his vitriol onto a captive audience.
n.  
  1. Violent or extravagant speech or writing.
  2. A speech or piece of writing that incites anger or violence: "The vast majority [of teenagers logged onto the Internet] did not encounter recipes for pipe bombs or deranged rants about white supremacy" (Daniel Okrent).
  3. Chiefly British Wild or uproarious merriment.

[Probably from obsolete Dutch ranten.]
rant'er n.
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Rant

Rant\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Ranted; p. pr. & vb. n. Ranting.] [OD. ranten, randen, to dote, to be enraged.] To rave in violent, high-sounding, or extravagant language, without dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and bombastic in talk or declamation; as, a ranting preacher.

Look where my ranting host of the Garter comes! --Shak.

Rant

Rant\, n. High-sounding language, without importance or dignity of thought; boisterous, empty declamation; bombast; as, the rant of fanatics.

This is a stoical rant, without any foundation in the nature of man or reason of things. --Atterbury.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : rant
Spanish: vociferar, echar pestes,
German: schimpfen,
Japanese: どなり立てる
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rant  (v.)
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 "a rude wild Boy or Girl."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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