Definition of "rapture" []

• The state of being transported by a lofty emotion; ecstasy. (noun)
• An expression of ecstatic feeling. Often used in the plural. (noun)
• The transporting of a person from one place to another, especially to heaven. (noun)
• To enrapture. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "D15AV0W3D: @rapture, what was the map called? rapture: Was probably the most creative map I've ever seen in a Halo game."
• "Critics of the rapture doctrine are quick to point out that the word rapture does not appear in the Bible."
• "The word rapture is the Latin version of a phrase the Bible uses to describe the catching away of all Christians, both dead and alive, on the earth at the appointed time."