Definitions for dance

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dance dance

Spelling: [dans, dahns]

IPA: /dæns, dɑns/

Dance is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in dance (acden).

Definitions for dance

noun

1. a successive group of rhythmical steps or bodily motions, or both, usually executed to music.
2. an act or round of dancing; set:
3. the art of dancing:
4. a social gathering or party for dancing; ball:
5. a piece of music suited in rhythm or style to a particular form of dancing:
6. Animal Behavior. a stylized pattern of movements performed by an animal, as a bird in courtship display, or an insect, as a honeybee in indicating a source of nectar.
7. the dance, ballet, interpretive dancing, and other dancing of an artistic nature performed by professional dancers before an audience.

Idioms

1. dance attendance. attendance (def 3).
2. dance on air, Slang. to be hanged.
3. dance to another tune, to change one's behavior, attitudes, etc.

verb (used with object)

1. to perform or take part in (a dance):
2. to cause to dance:
3. to cause to be in a specified condition by dancing:

verb (used without object)

1. to move one's feet or body, or both, rhythmically in a pattern of steps, especially to the accompaniment of music.
2. to leap, skip, etc., as from excitement or emotion; move nimbly or quickly:
3. to bob up and down:

Origin of dance

1250-1300; (v.) Middle English da(u)ncen Anglo-French dancer, dauncer, Old French dancier, perhaps Old High German *dansjan to lead (someone) to a dance; (noun) Middle English da(u)nce Anglo-

Examples for dance

Would she come laughing, with all the triumph of the dance bright in her face?

Girls in Peacetime Want to dance is a different sound for you.

If he had known it, it was with the dance of Death on the bridge of Lucerne.

Get up here and dance, and don't sit there like a bear nursing a sore paw.

“My dance instructor always says she earns most of her income from private teaching,” says Monir.

Even for Arabic dance no one wears a long dress, just a scarf around the hips.

And with the dance sequence, we wanted something very physical.

Twelve-year-old dance prodigy Maddie Ziegler has suffered the wrath of dance Moms tyrant Abby Lee Miller.

Where shall we set the tables, if we dance in the dining room?

Won't they dance, even for charity, except in their own houses?