dance

UK /dɑːns/ US /dæns/
noun 6verb 5name 1

Definitions

noun

1

A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction.

I do a dance when she plays the drums!

He does the Fortnite dance with his friends in school.

2

A social gathering where dancing is the main activity.

The dance we had in August 2008 is one of the greatest moments of my life!

"I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places.[…]"

3

The art, profession, and study of dancing.

4

Ellipsis of electronic dance music.

5

A piece of music with a particular dance rhythm.

They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.

verb

1

To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music.

I danced with her all night long.

These drum beats are making me dance!

2

To leap or move lightly and rapidly.

His eyes danced with pleasure as he spoke. She accused her political opponent of dancing around the issue instead of confronting it.

And woods along the banks are waving high, / Whose shadows in the glassy waters dance,

3

To perform the steps to.

Have you ever danced the tango?

4

To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about.

Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By pavèd fountain, or by rushy brook, or in the beachèd margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport.

Thy grandsire loved thee well; / Many a time he danced thee on his knee.

5

To make love or have sex.

You make me feel like dancing.

noun

1

A normally horizontal stripe called a fess that has been modified to zig-zag across the center of a coat of arms from dexter to sinister.

The fact appears to have been that Simon de Montacute bore two coats; the one, Argent, three fusils, which it is most probable was a corruption of a fess dancette, or a dance, Gules; and the other, Azure, a griffin segreant[…]

It is as follows - being headed by a shield of arms in colours - gold with a dance gules between three croslets fitchy gules.

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