Usually means: Ecstatic joy or religious ascent.
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  1. rapture: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rapture: Merriam-Webster
  3. rapture, the Rapture: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rapture: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rapture: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rapture: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rapture, rapture: Wordnik
  8. rapture: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Rapture, rapture: Wiktionary
  10. rapture: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. rapture: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. rapture: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Rapture, rapture, the rapture: Dictionary.com
  14. rapture: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. rapture: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. Rapture: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. rapture: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. rapture: Rhymezone
  20. rapture: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. rapture: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. rapture: FreeDictionary.org
  23. rapture: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. The Rapture, rapture: Legal dictionary
  2. Rapture (Buddhism): Financial dictionary

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  1. rapture: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rapture: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rapture: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
noun:  In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living and deceased believers. (Usually "the rapture".)
noun:  (obsolete) The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
noun:  (obsolete) Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.
noun:  (obsolete) 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.
noun:  A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.
verb:  (dated, transitive) To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.
verb:  (dated, intransitive) To experience great happiness or excitement.
verb:  (transitive) To take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
verb:  (rare, intransitive) To take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
verb:  (uncommon) To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.
noun:  (Christianity) a prophesied sudden removal of Christian believers from the Earth before the Tribulation or simultaneous with the second coming of Jesus Christ

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