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Dance

noun

An artistic form of nonverbal communication.

A party of people assembled for dancing.

Taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music. Synonyms: dancing, saltation, terpsichore.

A party for social dancing.

verb

(past & past part. danced; pres. part. dancing)

Move in a graceful and rhythmical way.

Move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance. Synonyms: trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe.

Skip, leap, or move up and down or sideways. "The children danced with joy"

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"Dance" Quotes from Famous Books

... '"Mrs. Henley Fairford gave another of her natty little dinners last Wednesday as usual it was smart small and exclusive and there was much gnashing of teeth among the left-outs as Madame Olga Loukowska gave some of her new steppe dances after dinner'—that's the French for new dance steps," Mrs. Heeny concluded, thrusting the documents back ...

— The Custom of the Country • Edith Wharton

... rest-for the drivers had been grumbling bitterly at the heavy load added to the car over the deep sand—and here there was a level plot, under the shade of a spreading sycamore, which had often before now served as a floor for the choric dance. ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... Oxford. A tutor, don't you see, old boy? He's coaching me, and some other men, for the little go. Me and Spavin have the drag between us. And I thought I'd just tool over and go to the play. Did you ever see Rowkins do the hornpipe?" and Mr. Foker began to perform some steps of that popular dance in the inn yard, looking round for the sympathy of his groom ...

— The History of Pendennis • William Makepeace Thackeray

... breaking down under the strain. Her left arm had developed involuntary jerkings and twitchings. She spilled her food from her spoon, and could place no reliance in her afflicted arm. She judged it to be a form of St. Vitus's dance, and she feared the extent to which its ravages might go. What if she broke down? And the vision she had of the possible future, when the cabin might contain only Dennin and Hans, ...

— Love of Life - and Other Stories • Jack London

... Sabaoth Superillustrans claritate tua Felices ignes horum malahoth!" Thus chanting saw I turn that substance bright With fourfold lustre to its orb again, Revolving; and the rest unto their dance With it mov'd also; and like swiftest sparks, In sudden distance from my sight ...

— The Divine Comedy, Complete - The Vision of Paradise, Purgatory and Hell • Dante Alighieri

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