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See also:Dance,dancé,anddaňče

English

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A man and womandancing

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishdauncen, fromAnglo-Normandauncer, fromVulgar Latin*dantiāre, of uncertain origin. DisplacedOld Englishsealtian, and partially displacedOld Englishhlēapan(“to leap, dance, run”) (whence modernleap).Doublet ofdanza.

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Noun

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dance (countable anduncountable,pluraldances)

  2. A sequence of rhythmic steps ormovements usually performed tomusic, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction.
    I do adance when she plays the drums!
    He does the Fortnitedance with his friends in school.
    • 1907 August,Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, inThe Younger Set, New York, N.Y.:D. Appleton & Company,→OCLC:
      "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. A social gathering where dancing is the main activity.
    Thedance we had in August 2008 is one of the greatest moments of my life!
    • 1907 August,Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, inThe Younger Set, New York, N.Y.:D. Appleton & Company,→OCLC:
      "I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and withdances; 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 anddances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places. […]"
    • 1985 April 29, Daniel Southerl, quotingDeng Liqun, “Saturday Night Fever in Peking”, inThe Washington Post‎[1],→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on27 August 2023‎[2]:
      But, he continued, "the experience of the Peking Municipal Communist Youth League shows that, as long as dance parties are organized and supervised well by the work units concerned and these units organize their own sentries, as long as the people attending thesedances are given a little coaching in advance on what is meant by normal socializing and recreation, and as long as thesedances are organized, led and guided properly, there will be no incidents."
  4. (uncountable) The art, profession, and study of dancing.
  5. (uncountable) A genre of modern music characterised by sampled beats, repetitive rhythms and few lyrics.
  6. A piece of music with a particular dance rhythm.[1]
    • 1909 September 9,Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, inThe Squire’s Daughter, London:Methuen & Co. […],→OCLC, page 9:
      They stayed together during threedances, 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.
  7. (figurative) A battle of wits, especially one commonly fought between two rivals.
    So how much longer are we gonna do thisdance?
  8. (figurative, dated) Any strenuous or difficult movement, action, or task.
    • 1886,Peter Christen Asbj&oslash￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad,Folk and Fairy Tales, page170:
      He that would watch the king's hares must not drag himself along as if he was a lazybones with soles of lead to his boots, or like a fly on a tar-brush, for when the hares began to scamper about on the hill-sides it was quite anotherdance than lying at home and catching fleas with mittens on.
  9. (beekeeping) Arepetitive movement used incommunication betweenworkerhoney bees.
    • 1961 November, W. Wittekindt, “An Understanding of Dancing Behaviour”, in G. H. Cale, editor,The American Bee Journal‎[3], volume101, number11, Hamilton,page434:
      It was seen that the readiness to dance and intensity of thedance are clearly increased when the temperature in the hive remained between 28-36° C.
Hyponyms
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Translations
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movements to music
social gathering where dancing is the main activity
battle of wits
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Verb

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dance (third-person singular simple presentdances,present participledancing,simple past and past participledanced)

  1. (intransitive) To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music.
    Idanced with her all night long.
    These drum beats are making medance!
  2. (intransitive) To leap or move lightly and rapidly.
    His eyesdanced with pleasure as he spoke.   She accused her political opponent ofdancing around the issue instead of confronting it.
    • 1812–1818,George Gordon [Lord] Byron,Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 2, verse 54:
      And woods along the banks are waving high, / Whose shadows in the glassy watersdance,
    • 2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, inRAIL, number996, page30:
      A common and beautiful side-effect of high solar activity is the Aurora Borealis - the northern lights thatdance across Arctic skies.
  3. (transitive) To perform the steps to.
    Have you everdanced the tango?
  4. (transitive) To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about.
  5. (figurative, euphemistic) Tomake love orhave sex.
    You make me feel likedancing.
  6. (beekeeping, of a worker honey bee) To make arepetitive movement in order tocommunicate to otherworkerhoney bees.
    • 1961 November, W. Wittekindt, “An Understanding of Dancing Behaviour”, in G. H. Cale, editor,The American Bee Journal‎[4], volume101, number11, Hamilton,page434:
      It was seen that the readiness todance and intensity of the dance are clearly increased when the temperature in the hive remained between 28-36° C.
  7. (figurative, euphemistic) To kick and convulse from the effects of being hanged.
    • 1907,Literary Digest‎[5], volume34, page364:
      If that veil can be maintained, if the workers can be kept from knowing the perfidy of officials, the criminality of capitalism, the murderous vengeance that is planned by the plutocratic powers of America, then Charles Moyer, William D. Haywood, and George Pettibone willdance on empty air, while the ghouls of capitalism rejoice because they have landed another blow upon the body of resisting labor.
    • 1926,Walter Noble Burns,The Saga of Billy the Kid‎[6], page250:
      Beneath the shoulder blades of the limp form lying there lay the heart that had hated him, that had beat high at the thought of seeing him kick at the end of a hangman's rope, that had exulted in the prospect of himdancing a death dance on air.
    • 2001, Paul Doherty,The Hangman's Hymn (Canterbury Tales Mysteries, Book 5)‎[7]:
      Simon had seen other men executed at Berkeley, both in the castle and outside in the village. They were usually strung up like rats, left todance, their death throes sometimes seeming to last forever.
    • 2010 January 12, Sara Starbuck,Dread Pirate Fleur and the Hangman's Noose‎[8], page342:
      'Hats off!' the shout went up, not out of respect for those about to die, but for a better view of their death dance. The hangman, who was as drunk as anyone else, uncoiled the rope's free end from each prisoner in turn and threw it up to an assistant balanced precariously on the beam above. Each was tightly fastened, leaving very little slack. When the moment came, the carts would be driven out from under the prisoners, leaving themdancing the Tyburn jig, their legs paddling helplessly in the air.
    • 2019 November 7, Carter J. Gregory,The Hangman's Psalm: The Girl at the Gallows‎[9]:
      Not only will you be whipped, but Jack Ketch will be displeased. He knows how to attach the rope just so...a man's neck can be snaped in an instant and he feels pain for a moment only. Or, at Ketch's pleasure, the man swings in the air, his legsdance in an ungainly manner, his face turns red, his tongue turns purple and protrudes - a poor devil once bit off the tip and spit it out, and he chocked(sic) to death.
    • 2022 November 30, John Gardiner,A Hitchhiker's Triptych‎[10]:
      Initially, all hanging deaths were by the short rope. The victims strangled as they performed a twitching death dance. Over time there was a move to a longer rope. The extra drop meant the victim's neck snapped, causing a more humane death. For a long time adter the long rope was introduced, stories circulated around Aberdeen of executioners slipping in the short rope for criminals convicted of particularly heinous crimes, especially for crimes against children. No quick end for these devils. A slowdancing death, courtesy of the short rope, brouht in by canny executioners.
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Descendants
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Translations
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move rhythmically to music

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Etymology 2

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Related todancy,dancetté,Frenchdanché.

Noun

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dance (pluraldances)

  1. (heraldry) A normally horizontal stripe called afess that has been modified tozig-zag across the center of acoat of arms fromdexter tosinister.
    • 1828, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Walter (of Exeter),The Siege of Carlaverock in the XXVIII Edward I. A. D. MCCC, page243:
      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 adance, Gules; and the other, Azure, a griffin segreant […]
    • 1902,The Ancestor: A Quarterly Review of County and Family History, Heraldry and Antiquities ..., page85:
      It is as follows - being headed by a shield of arms in colours - gold with adance gules between three croslets fitchy gules.
    • 1922,Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica, page189:
      Or, adance gules, in chief 3 lions' faces sable.

References

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  1. ^John A. Simpson andEdmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “dance”, inThe Compact Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, volumesI (A–O), Oxford:Clarendon Press, published1991,→ISBN, page387.

Further reading

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Anagrams

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishdance.Doublet ofdanse.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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dance f (uncountable)

  1. dance music

Galician

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Verb

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dance

  1. inflection ofdanzar:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
    2. third-personsingularimperative

Middle French

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Etymology

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FromOld Frenchdance.

Noun

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dance f (pluraldances)

  1. dance

Descendants

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Old French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Deverbal fromdancier.

Noun

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danceoblique singular, f (oblique pluraldances,nominative singulardance,nominative pluraldances)

  1. dance

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Portuguese

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Verb

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dance

  1. inflection ofdançar:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
    2. third-personsingularimperative

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Spanish

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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dance

  1. inflection ofdanzar:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
    2. third-personsingularimperative
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