Definitions for country-dance

country-dance coun·try-dance

Spelling: [kuhn-tree-dans, -dahns]
IPA: /ˈkʌn triˌdæns, -ˌdɑns/

Country-Dance is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 1106 anagrams from letters in country-dance (-accdennortuy).

Definitions for country-dance

noun

  1. a dance of rural English origin in which the dancers form circles or squares or in which they face each other in two rows.

Origin of country-dance

First recorded in 1570-80

Examples for country-dance

The French contredanse was borrowed from the English country-dance.

The Miss Darnels and their partners took their places near the top of the country-dance.

She did not refuse him for the country-dance which followed, and soon after was his partner in a second.

The country-dance expresses the happiness of youth and the gladness of life.

It was a regular jig-a-jig—a country-dance of pousette, down the middle, and right and left.

A country-dance was called, and the epicier claimed the fair hand of the gentle Adele.

Scully, trembling, thrust forward one of his huge kid-gloves, and led her to the head of the country-dance.

She replied that Henry Harford had engaged her, at the last ball, for this country-dance.

Everybody laughed, and we took our places to lead off the country-dance.

You are thrown on your back immediately; the conversation is stopt like a country-dance by those who do not know the figure.

Word Value for country-dance
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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