■ noun
1》 a feeling of intense pleasure or joy.
2》 ( ~s ) the expression of intense pleasure or enthusiasm.
3》 ( the Rapture ) N. Amer. (according to some millenarian teaching) the transporting of believers to heaven at the second coming of Christ.
Phrases
~ of the deep informal nitrogen narcosis.
Origin
C16 (in the sense 'seizing and carrying off'): from obs. Fr., or from med. L. raptura 'seizing', partly influenced by rapt .