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The definition of cavort means to jump, dance or play in a happy way.
(verb)- Skipping down the street is an example of to cavort.
- Playfully pillow fighting is an example of to cavort.
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See cavort in Webster's New World College Dictionary
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intransitive verb
- to leap about; prance or caper
- to romp about happily; frolic
Origin: earlier cavaut; prob. < ca-, colloq. intens. prefix (< ? Ger ge-) + vault
See cavort in American Heritage Dictionary 4
intransitive verb ca·vort·ed, ca·vort·ing, ca·vorts
- To bound or prance about in a sprightly manner; caper.
- To have lively or boisterous fun; romp: The children cavorted in the water, splashing and ducking each other.
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Origin: Possibly alteration of curvet
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