adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a rapturous welcome (= a very pleased and excited one )
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He returned to his homeland to a rapturous welcome in 1996
an enthusiastic/rapturous/rousing reception (= in which people show a lot of approval in a noisy way )
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She received an enthusiastic reception.
rapturous/enthusiastic applause
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He left the stage to rapturous applause.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
applause
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When Nicholas returned to Parkhead to play his home debut in a showpiece friendly against Everton he was greeted with rapturous applause .
reception
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He failed, however, to get the rapturous reception he may have expected from his chief apologist on the international scene.
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They gave a magnificent recital, which got a rapturous reception .
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He was given a rapturous reception by a flag-waving crowd of 5,000 when the result was announced shortly after midnight.
welcome
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Franco landed in Tetuán on 19 July to a rapturous welcome from rebel officers.
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A player representation, led by caretaker manager Edwin Stein, received a rapturous welcome .
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In May 1961 the show opened in London to a rapturous welcome .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The exhibition has drawn huge crowds and rapturous reviews.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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His is a rapturous passion, an all-consuming love.
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In 1985, it was floated on the stock market to a rapturous City which valued the family stake at £292 million.
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Many scorned it but rapturous press reviews helped push the record up into the high altitudes of the independent chart.
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One wall was plastered with posters filled with cryptic diagrams and rapturous praises of Nubian culture and other articles of Afrocentric faith.
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To Powell, the frontier was a rapturous experience.