英:['ræntə]
美:['ræntə]
英:['ræntə]
美:['ræntə]
verb
intransitive verb
to talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
to scold vehemently
transitive verb
to utter in a bombastic declamatory fashion
noun
a bombastic extravagant speech
bombastic extravagant language
dialectal British a rousing good time
Verb obsolete Dutch ranten, randen
The first known use of rant was in 1601
rapaciousadjective
very greedy
predatory sense 2
rap1 of 5noun
a sharp blow or knock
a sharp criticism
a bad reputation that is often not deserved
given a bad rap
the blame for or unfavorable consequences of an action
took the rap
a criminal charge
a murder rap
rap2 of 5verb
to give a quick sharp blow : knock
to utter suddenly with force
rap3 of 5noun
the least bit
doesn't care a rap
rap4 of 5verb
to talk freely and frankly
to perform rap
rap5 of 5noun
an informal talk : chat, conversationalso: a line of talk : patter
a rhythmic chanting often in unison of usually rhymed couplets to a musical accompaniment
a musical piece so performed
rant1 of 2verb
to talk loudly and wildly
rant2 of 2noun
loud and wild speech
1 That starts with the president himself, of course, less presidential than your average radio phone-in ranter.
2 If one of those posts gets attention, is it hurting you or the ranter more?
3 after complaining about the hotel's lousy service, the woman went off on another rant about the condition of her room
4 Writer-director Smith famously survived one in 2018, and the prospect that this personal detail will chart new profanely amusing and emotional territory for these likable ranters feels promising.
5 The unmasking of one of the countless anonymous ranters on the World Wide Web gave scandal-starved British journalists some relief from volcanic ash and the election campaign on Monday.
6 The Dissenter is free; the wildest ranter has a liberty which an Archbishop may sigh for in vain.
7 Gabel, a tall, almost burly transplant from Chicago, is — among other things — a bit of a ranter.
8 He was no more a sentimentalist but now a roaring ranter.
9 Sometimes you mightn't show it because you're not a ranter and a raver and jumping up and down on the line.
10 Ye see," he added aside to his squires, "what that ranter, Walter de Brakkeleye, and his co-bailiff, de la Barre, have done.
11 Jake was older than most of his fellow ranters, but younger than the youth workers who supported them.
12 Dena was like a Facebook ranter 20 years before Facebook even existed.
13 "There is nothing of the ranter in me—you know sir," and he used uncomplimentary remarks which I omit.
14 After hours of dullard, rasper, ranter, Sweet an interlude of Balfour's banter!
15 Anger, a squat, inverted trapezoid of bright red bluster, is the “Daily Show” ranter Lewis Black.
16 White is cranky, sometimes a ranter, but he’s also someone of real integrity who has been committed to musicians of all kinds for a long time.
17 Always more of a whisperer or a ranter or a rasper, master of not one voice but many.
18 instead of addressing the current crisis, the mayor's speech was a lot of rant emphasizing his accomplishments
19 This may sound like the ranting (or whining) of a glass-half-empty person.
20 Tony seized upon the word liked a practised ranter.