rapture
noun
us
/ˈræp.tʃɚ/ uk
/ˈræp.tʃər/He listened to the music with an expression of pure rapture on his face.
The mayor's supporters greeted her speech with rapture.
Meaning of rapture in English
(Definition of rapture from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
rapture | Intermediate English
[ U ] Life was rapture for a little while.
Examples of rapture
rapture
The piece itself is not religious but captures the rapture of a religious experience through music.
From Huffington Post
Passed between their hands, she cycles through resistance and a kind of drugged rapture.
The idea of a rapture was us painting an ideal, we were singing this song about the way we wish that things could be.
From The Atlantic
We find bunny; the little one is in raptures.
From NPR
Nothing, except for the fervent hope that all of them will be raptured.
From NPR
The days are evil, the rapture of d saint are at hand.
From CNN
Nothing like that had ever been created in heavy metal before, and was greeted with as much rapture as bafflement.
From NPR
And certainly by the second half of her tenure there in the '60s, her voice, an expressive rapture, had diminished.
From NPR
Not since the winds wuthered through the heights have such raptures of grief been suffered by a main character.
From Los Angeles Times
The oft-haughty players looked as though they had just discovered rapture.
From Los Angeles Times
Store said he and the others in his caravan were not disappointed that the dramatic events associated with the rapture had not come to pass.
From CNN
The ensemble's voices blend beautifully in harmonious rapture.
From Chicago Daily Herald
They walked through the crowd, head held high with exquisite pride, and they received their certificate with rapture.
From Huffington Post
What do you say to people who view this idea as simply an updated reselling of the rapture?
From The Atlantic
One computer scientist let slip the word cultish; others mock the singularity as the rapture of the nerds.
From NPR
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歓喜, 有頂天…
coşku, kendinden geçme, aşırı heyecana kapılma…
ravissement…
entusiasme, èxtasi…
vervoering…
henrykkelse…
hänfördhet, hänryckthet…
kesungguhan…
das Entzücken…
vill begeistring…
захват, екстаз…
восторг…
نَشوة…
uchvácení…
sukacita…
ความปิติยินดีอย่างยิ่ง…
sự sung sướng…
zachwyt…
황홀…
estasi, rapimento…
