rapture

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rapture^¹

/ˈɹæpt͡ʃəː/ Australia, UK
[ˈɹʷæpt͡ʃəː] Australia, UK
/ˈɹɛptʃɘː/ New Zealand
[ˈɹʷɛ̞pt͡ʃɘː] New Zealand
/ˈɹæpt͡ʃɚ/ US
[ˈɹʷæpt͡ʃɚ] ~ [ˈɹʷæpt͡ʃɹ̩] US

Rhymes with -æptʃə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Middle French rapture, from Latin raptūra, future active participle of rapiō (“snatch, carry off”).

noun raptures

countable, uncountable Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement. They went into raptures about the meal they'd had.
countable, uncountable, with the Alternative letter-case form of Rapture In the last week, believers have linked Charlie Kirk’s assassination to the rapture theory: some on TikTok have suggested that Kirk, who in death became a martyr for Christian nationalists and whose memorial service veered into religious revival territory, could be resurrected during the rapture.
countable, obsolete, uncountable The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
countable, obsolete, uncountable Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.
countable, obsolete, uncountable 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. That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash / With headlong rapture.
countable, uncountable A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium. Your pratling nurse Into a rapture lets her baby cry

verb raptures · rapturing · raptured

dated, transitive To cause to experience great happiness or excitement. She raptured me in summer by giving me Fitzgerald's flawed and gorgeous masterpiece, the book that held his tortured heart.
dated, intransitive To experience great happiness or excitement.
transitive To take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the Rapture. "If she's raptured," Ellen said to them on the fifth night after Marylee's disappearance, as they sat on the roof of the building on their old beanbags and rusting garden furniture hauled up from the Museum, "if that's what happened to her, then […]"
intransitive, rare To take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
uncommon To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously. And then the flowers! May-day indeed. Hester had been in Switzerland at the end of June, years on years before, and often had she raptured to Effie about the day's ride, in which they collected a hundred varieties of flowers, most of them new to them.

Rapture^²

proper noun the Rapture

In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, a prophesied sudden removal of Christian believers from the Earth before the Tribulation or simultaneous with the second coming of Jesus Christ. The end of the world will be at exactly 6 p.m. on May 21, 2011, says Camping, who along with his organization, Family Radio, are behind those billboards across the country forecasting the Rapture this Saturday. The Rapture, the Last Days, Armageddon and the Final Days of Judgment are all interchange

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Closest in meaning: ecstasy, exaltation, transport, delight, bliss, marvellous, marvelous, wonderful, tribulation, interruption, abduction, kidnapping, removal, palace, penthouse, outage

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noun extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement

Español	arrobamiento, arrobo, embelesamiento, embeleso, arrebatamiento, arrebato
Français	ravissement
Deutsch	Ekstase, Taumel, Verzückung, Entzücken, Überschwänglichkeit, Hingerissenheit
Ελληνικά	έκσταση ékstasi
Русский	восто́рг vostórg, упое́ние upojénije
العربية	طَرَب ṭarab, نَشْوَة našwa

noun spasm, seizure

Deutsch	Krampfanfall

name gathering up of believers in end times

Español	arrebatamiento, rapto, arrebato
日本語	携挙 keikyo
中文	被提 bèití
Português	arrebatamento
Français	ravissement, enlèvement
Deutsch	Entrückung
Italiano	rapimento, estasi
Ελληνικά	αναρπαγή anarpagí
Română	răpirea
Русский	восхищение vosxiščenije
עברית	התלהבות hitlahavút, סוף העידן sof ha'idán

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@misc{rapture_2026,
  title = {rapture},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/rapture},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}