According to Guinness World Records, the largest coffee shop is the Al Masaa Café, which has 1,050 seats. The coffee shop was inaugurated in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 13 August 2014.
RAPTURES
Noun
raptures
plural of rapture
Verb
raptures
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rapture
Anagrams
• partures, pasturer
Source: Wiktionary
RAPTURE
Rap"ture, n. Etym: [L. rapere, raptum, to carry off by force. See Rapid.]
1. A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence. [Obs.] That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash With headlong rapture. Chapman.
2. The state or condition of being rapt, or carried away from one's self by agreeable excitement; violence of a pleasing passion; extreme joy or pleasure; ecstasy. Music, when thus applied, raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions; it strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture. Addison. You grow correct that once with rapture writ. Pope.
3. A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium. [Obs.] Shak.
Syn.
– Bliss; ecstasy; transport; delight; exultation.
Rap"ture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Raptured; p. pr. & vb. n. Rapturing.]
Definition: To transport with excitement; to enrapture. [Poetic] Thomson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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