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Dance   /dæns/   Listen
Dance

noun
1.
An artistic form of nonverbal communication.
2.
A party of people assembled for dancing.
3.
Taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music.  Synonyms: dancing, saltation, terpsichore.
4.
A party for social dancing.
verb
(past & past part. danced; pres. part. dancing)
1.
Move in a graceful and rhythmical way.
2.
Move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance.  Synonyms: trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe.
3.
Skip, leap, or move up and down or sideways.  "The children danced with joy"



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"Dance" Quotes from Famous Books



... entreaty. But, as he bent over her, was a flash of steel, and deep-smitten he staggered back to the great tree and, leaning there, fell into a fit of wild laughter so that the silver dagger-hilt that was shaped like a woman seemed to dance and leap upon his quick-heaving breast; then as he swayed there laughing his life out, he raised his face to the pale moon, and I saw that the face of Black ...
— Black Bartlemy's Treasure • Jeffrey Farnol

... filled his lungs again and again with Montana air, that was clean of fog and had a nip to it. The sun shone, the sky was blue and the clouds reminded him of a band of new-washed sheep scattered and feeding quietly. The wind blew keen in his face and set his blood a-dance, his blood, which for long months had moved ...
— The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories • B. M. Bower

... as truly as that of the plantation negro, they vanished from the sea with a breed of men who, for all their faults, possessed the valor of the Viking and the fortitude of the Spartan. Outcasts ashore—which meant to them only the dance halls of Cherry Street and the grog-shops of Ratcliffe Road—they had virtues that were as great as their failings. Across the intervening years, with a pathos indefinable, come the ...
— The Old Merchant Marine - A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors, Volume 36 in - the Chronicles Of America Series • Ralph D. Paine

... fancy what a dance the Attorney had all night long; such a waltz he never had before, and I don't think he would much care if he never had such a waltz again. Now he pulled the door forward, and then the door pulled him back, and so he ...
— Popular Tales from the Norse • Sir George Webbe Dasent

... the flowering ground In flocks, and beat the luscious laden air With emerald and gold, and scarlet, where These perfect forms with godly grace divine, In loveliness upon the rock recline. Sweet joy is slender formed, with bright black eyes That sparkle oft and dance with joy's surprise; Seduction, with her rare voluptuous form, Enchanteth all till wildest passions warm The blood and fire the eye beneath her charm; All hearts in heaven and earth she doth disarm. The Queen with every perfect charm displayed Delights the eye, and fills the heart, dismayed ...
— Babylonian and Assyrian Literature • Anonymous


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