Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word DANCE

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Definitions of DANCE

1. A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction.
2. A social gathering where dancing is the main activity.
3. (uncountable) The art, profession, and study of dancing.
4. (uncountable) A genre of modern music characterised by sampled beats, repetitive rhythms and few lyrics.
5. A piece of music with a particular dance rhythm.
6. (figurative) A battle of wits, especially one commonly fought between two rivals.
7. (figurative, dated) Any strenuous or difficult movement, action, or task.
8. (apiology) A repetitive movement used in communication between worker honey bees.
9. (intransitive) To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music.
10. (intransitive) To leap or move lightly and rapidly.
11. (transitive) To perform the steps to.
12. (transitive) To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about.
13. (figurative, euphemism) To make love or have sex.
14. (apiology, of a worker honey bee) To make a repetitive movement in order to communicate to other worker honey bees.
15. (figurative, euphemism) To kick and convulse from the effects of being hanged.
16. (heraldiccharge) A normally horizontal stripe called a fess that has been modified to zig-zag across the center of a coat of arms from dexter to sinister.
17. A surname.

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Examples of Using DANCE in a Sentence

• Apollo has been recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases, the Sun and light, poetry, and more.
• Ballroom dance is a set of European partner dances, which are enjoyed both socially and competitively around the world, mostly because of its performance and entertainment aspects.
• The station provides alternative genres at night, including electronica, dance, hip hop and indie, while its sister station 1Xtra plays black contemporary music, including hip hop and R&B.
• Ballads derive from the medieval French chanson balladée or ballade, which were originally "dance songs".
• Baroque dance is dance of the Baroque era (roughly 1600–1750), closely linked with Baroque music, theatre, and opera.
• Ballu tundu or ballu sardu is a traditional Sardinian folk dance which is typically danced in a closed or open circle.
• The band mixed various musical styles, incorporating elements of punk rock, dance music, hip hop, reggae, and funk.
• Contra dance (also contradance, contra-dance and other variant spellings) is a form of folk dancing made up of long lines of couples.
• Credited as pioneers for pop sampling in the 1980s, Coldcut are also considered the first stars of UK electronic dance music due to their innovative style, which featured cut-up samples of hip-hop, soul, funk, spoken word and various other types of music, as well as video and multimedia.
• Cheerleading routines typically range anywhere from one to three minutes, and contain components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting.
• In partner dancing, connection is physical, non-verbal communication between dancers to facilitate synchronized or coordinated dance movements.
• The term also was traditionally used to describe typical appropriate clothing for certain activities, such as riding costume, swimming costume, dance costume, and evening costume.
• Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the late 1960s from the United States' urban nightlife scene.
• Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated as DnB, D&B, or D'n'B) is a genre of electronic dance music characterised by fast breakbeats (typically 165–185 beats per minute) with heavy bass and sub-bass lines, samples, and synthesizers.
• The Danse Macabre consists of the dead, or a personification of death, summoning representatives from all walks of life to dance along to the grave, typically with a pope, emperor, king, child, and labourer.
• Introduced in Japan in 1998 as part of the Bemani series, and released in North America and Europe in 1999, Dance Dance Revolution is the pioneering series of the rhythm and dance genre in video games.
• Presley's energized performances and interpretations of songs, and sexually provocative dance moves, combined with a singularly potent mix of influences across color lines during a transformative era in race relations, brought both great success and initial controversy.
• Freestyle, or Latin freestyle (initially called Latin hip hop) is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in the New York metropolitan area, Philadelphia, and Miami, primarily among Hispanic Americans and Italian Americans in the 1980s.
• Fabritio Caroso da Sermoneta (1526/1535 – 1605/1620) was an Italian Renaissance dancing master and a composer or transcriber of dance music.
• The Olympic disciplines are men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance; the four individual disciplines are also combined into a team event, which was first included in the Winter Olympics in 2014.

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