Synonyms for dance

Grammar : Noun

Spell : dans, dahns

Phonetic Transcription : dæns, dɑns

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Définition of dance

Origin : c.1300, from Old French dancier (12c., Modern French danser), of unknown origin, perhaps from Low Frankish *dintjan and akin to Old Frisian dintje "tremble, quiver." A word of uncertain origin but which, through French influence in arts and society, has become the primary word for this activity from Spain to Russia (e.g. Italian danzare, Spanish danzar, Rumanian dansa, Swedish dansa, German tanzen).
In part the loanword from French is used mainly with reference to fashionable dancing while the older native word persists in use with reference to folk-dancing, as definitively Russ. pljasat' vs. tancovat' [Buck].
Replaced Old English sealtian, itself a borrowing from Latin saltare "to dance," frequentative of salire "to leap" (see salient (adj.); "dance" words frequently are derived from words meaning "jump, leap"). Related: Danced; dancing.
It is strange, and will, I am sure, appear to my readers almost incredible, that as far as I have ever read, there is no reference that can be identified as containing a clear allusion to dancing in any of our really ancient MS. books. [Eugene O'Curry, "On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish," vol. 2, p.406, 1873]

noun moving feet and body to music
noun party for moving to music

Example sentences :

If he had known it, it was with the Dance of Death on the bridge of Lucerne.
Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge

Would she come laughing, with all the triumph of the dance bright in her face?
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

Won't they dance, even for charity, except in their own houses?
Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark

Get up here and dance, and don't sit there like a bear nursing a sore paw.
Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr

Where shall we set the tables, if we dance in the dining room?
Extract from : « Chip, of the Flying U » by B. M. Bower

Jim DID cry, and rip and dance and carry on, he was so thankful and out of his mind for joy.
Extract from : « Tom Sawyer Abroad » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

Three times did he repeat this song, and as often did he encircle the post in his dance.
Extract from : « The Last of the Mohicans » by James Fenimore Cooper

And of course I shall not dance, as I'm still in half mourning.
Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson

Doesn't he look as if he loved to dance, snapping his fingers to keep time?
Extract from : « Buried Cities: Pompeii, Olympia, Mycenae » by Jennie Hall

They were to dine on the lawn, in a large marquee, and to dance in the evening.
Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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