rave-up

1. 1.

   a raucous gathering

   Broadergathering

   United Kingdom

Questions about rave-up

What does rave-up mean?

rave-up means "a raucous gathering".

How many syllables are in rave-up?

rave-up has 3 syllables and divides as ra-ve--up under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is rave-up a common word?

rave-up is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.