rapture
ecstatic joy or delight; joyful ecstasy.
Often raptures. an utterance or expression of ecstatic delight.
the carrying of a person to another place or sphere of existence.
the Rapture, Theology. the experience, anticipated by some fundamentalist Christians, of meeting Christ midway in the air upon his return to earth.
Archaic. the act of carrying off.
Origin of rapture
1synonym study For rapture
Other words for rapture
Opposites for rapture
Other words from rapture
- rap·ture·less, adjective
Words that may be confused with rapture
- rapture , rupture
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British Dictionary definitions for rapture
/ (ˈræptʃə) /
the state of mind resulting from feelings of high emotion; joyous ecstasy
(often plural) an expression of ecstatic joy
the act of transporting a person from one sphere of existence to another, esp from earth to heaven
(tr) archaic, or literary to entrance; enrapture
Origin of rapture
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