Dance meaning
The definition of a dance is a group of rhythmic movements and steps set to music or a social gathering where people participate in rhythmic movements and steps set to music.
An example of dance is the salsa.
An example of dance is the prom.
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To perform the steps to.
Have you ever danced the tango?
verb
An act of communication by dancing.
A peacock's courtship dance.
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The art of dancing.
Studied dance in college.
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(intransitive) 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.
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To appear to flash or twinkle.
Eyes that danced with merriment.
verb
To engage in or perform (a dance).
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To lead (someone) in a dance.
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To cause to move up and down quickly or lightly.
Danced the child on her knee.
verb
A party or gathering of people for dancing.
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Dance is defined as to move the feet and body to rhythm.
An example of dance is to engage in the salsa.
verb
To move rhythmically usually to music, using prescribed or improvised steps and gestures.
verb
A series of motions and steps, such as the waltz or tango, usually performed to music.
noun
The act or an instance of dancing.
May I have this dance?
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The music composed or played for a certain kind of dance or for a particular dance.
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To move the body and feet in rhythm, ordinarily to music.
verb
To take part in or perform a dance.
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To move lightly and gaily; caper.
verb
To bob up and down.
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To be stirred into rapid movement, as leaves in a wind.
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To take part in or perform (a dance)
verb
To cause to dance.
verb
To cause to move lightly, bob up and down, etc.
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Rhythmic movement of the body and feet, ordinarily to music.
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A particular kind of dance, as the waltz, tango, etc.
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The art of dancing, esp. as performed in ballet or modern dance.
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A piece of music for dancing.
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Rapid, lively movement.
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Any elaborate or ritualized sequence of actions, specif., an instinctive one performed by two animals as a part of courting or mating.
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A party to which people come to dance.
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One round of dancing at such a party.
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A social gathering where dancing is designed to take place.
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A genre of modern music characterised by sampled beats, repetitive rhythms and few lyrics.
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(uncountable) The art, profession, and study of dancing.
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(intransitive) To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music.
I danced with her all night long.
verb
To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about.
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To perform a specialized set of movements to communicate chiefly with other members of the same species.
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To speak or behave in an evasive or vacillating manner.
Danced around the issue.
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To move or leap about excitedly.
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To bob up and down or move about rapidly.
The leaves danced in the wind.
verb
Origin of dance
Middle English daunsen, from Anglo-Norman dancer, dauncer (“to dance”) (compare Old French dancier), from Frankish *dansōn (“to draw, to pull, to gesture”) (compare Old High German dansōn (“to draw, pull”)), from Proto-Germanic *dansōną.