dancen.

Brit.

/dɑːns/,

/dans/, U.S.

/dæns/

Forms: Middle English–1600s daunce, (Middle English dauns(e, Middle English–1500s dawnce, 1500s dans(s), Middle English– dance.

Etymology: < Old French dance, danse, < the verb dancer, danser. So Provençal dansa, Catalan dansa, Spanish danza, Portuguese dança, dansa, Italian danza; also German tanz, Dutch dans.

1. A rhythmical skipping and stepping, with regular turnings and movements of the limbs and body, usually to the accompaniment of music; either as an expression of joy, exultation, and the like, or as an amusement or entertainment; the action or an act or round of dancing.

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society > leisure > dancing > [noun]

hoppingc1290

dancec1300

dancinga1340

sallyingc1440

footinga1450

balla1571

tracing1577

orchestra1596

measuring1598

dancery?1615

saltation1623

tripudiation1623

poetry of motion (also the foot)1654

light fantastic1832

rug-cutting1937

terping1942

c1300 K. Alis. 6990 Murye they syngyn, and daunces maken.

1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 4684 Daunces, karols, somour games.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 7601 In her daunse [Gött. dauncing, Vesp. karol] þis was þe song.

c1400 Rom. Rose 808 It to me liked right wele, That Courtesie me cleped so, And bade me on the daunce go.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms cxlix. 3 Let them prayse his name in the daunce.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. i. 254 Luld in these flowers, with daunces and delight.

1611 Bible (King James) Judges xxi. 21 If the daughters of Shiloh come out to daunce in daunces.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 619 That day..they spent In song and dance about the sacred Hill.

1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 181 Leaps, wildly graceful, in the lively dance.

1762 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting II. iii. 92 The holy family with a dance of Angels..is a capital picture.

1841 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley cxviii Waltzers whirled past in the wild excitement of the dance.

1894 N.E.D. at Dance Mod. Her partner for the next dance.

a. A definite succession or arrangement of steps and rhythmical movements constituting one particular form or method of dancing.

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society > leisure > dancing > [noun] > a dance

chore1382

dance1393

measure?c1430

virlyc1430

tracec1450

platfoot1559

hop-about1593

firk1637

footing1652

ballet1786

stand-up1861

1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 365 The hove daunce and the carole.

1521 R. Copland in A. Barclay Introd. Frenche f. 16, (title) Maner of Dauncynge of base daunces after the vse of Fraunce.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V ii. iv. 25 If we heard England were busied with a Moris dance.

1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. i. 55 A kinde of dance which they use also in Spaine..called The Canaries.

1711 E. Budgell Spectator No. 67. ⁋2 Pyrrhus..Inventing the Dance which is called after his Name.

1879 H. N. Moseley Notes by Naturalist on ‘Challenger’ 331 The most interesting dances were a Club Dance and a Fan Dance.

b. A tune or musical composition for regulating the movements of a dance, or composed in a dance rhythm.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > dance music > [noun]

springa1475

dance1509

ballo1825

1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xvi. xix She commaunded her mynstrelles right anone to play..the gentill daunce.

1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 180 Ballete or daunces..songs, which being song to a dittie may likewise be daunced.

1711 E. Budgell Spectator No. 67. ⁋9 [He] bid the Fidlers play a Dance called Mol Patley.

1880 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 350/1 His [Chopin's] first..compositions were dances: Polonaises, Mazurkas, and Valses.

3. A social gathering for the purpose of dancing; a dancing party.

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society > leisure > dancing > ball or dance > [noun]

treschec1290

hoppingc1330

dancec1385

ball?1605

ballet1657

dancing-match1740

dancing-assembly1765

fandango1766

dancing-party1852

German1853

rag1899

ngoma1905

rat race1937

c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Dido. 1269 And waytyn hire at festis and at dauncis.

1790 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter 178 in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 563 Ah! little kenn'd thy reverend grannie, That sark she coft for her wee Nannie..Wad ever grac'd a dance of witches!

a1845 R. H. Barham Wedding-day in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. 211 When asked to a party, A dance, or a dinner.

1894 N.E.D. at Dance Mod. Mrs. S. is giving a dance instead of a garden party this year.

4. transferred and figurative.

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1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 85. ⁋4 The dance of spirits, the bound of vigour..are reserved for him that braces his nerves.

1879 J. Stainer Music of Bible 3 One might say that rhythm is the dance of sound.

1881 Daily Tel. 28 Jan. The dance of the waters, especially to windward, was visible for over a mile around.

†5. figurative. Course of action; mode of procedure, play, game. to know the old dance: cf. French ‘elle sçait assez de la vieille danse, she knowes well enough what belongs to the Game’ (Cotgrave).

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the world > action or operation > doing > a proceeding > [noun]

thingOE

processa1325

fare1340

dancea1352

passage1569

play1581

procedure1590

carriage1609

conduct1706

démarche1721

affair1797

proceeding1801

the world > action or operation > behaviour > [noun] > (a) course of conduct or action

wayeOE

pathOE

waya1225

tracea1300

line13..

dancea1352

tenor1398

featc1420

faction1447

rink?a1500

footpath1535

trade1536

vein1549

tract1575

course1582

road1600

country dance1613

track1638

steeragea1641

rhumb1666

tack1675

conduct1706

walk1755

wheel-way1829

a1352 L. Minot Poems i. 66 At Donde now es done þaire daunce, And wend þai most anoþer way.

a1352 L. Minot Poems v. 14 Sare it þam smerted þat ferd out of France, Þare lered Inglis men þam a new daunce.

c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 478 Of remedies of loue she knew per chaunce For she koude of that art the olde daunce.

1423 Kingis Quair clxxxv Tham that ar noght entrit inne The dance of lufe.

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 86 God for his merci and pitee kepe Ynglond, that he come not into lijk daunce.

a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 53/1 The lord Stanley and he had departed with diuerse other lordes, and broken all the daunce.

1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age ii. i. xv. 200 The Emperour..troubled, at this too long, and too bloody dance.

1733 Walpole in Morley Life (1889) viii. 174 This dance..will no further go. I meant well, but..the Act could not be carried into execution without an armed force.

6. Phrases:

a. to begin, lead the dance; figurative to take the lead in any course of action.

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society > authority > control > be in control [verb (intransitive)] > lead

to begin, lead the dancec1325

to take the (or a) lead1745

skipper1883

the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > advance, progress, or develop [verb (intransitive)] > lead the way

to begin, lead the dancec1325

to lead (also rule) the ringa1450

to lead (bear, have) the vana1661

pioneer1780

to take up the running1825

blaze1841

to lead the way1874

society > leisure > dancing > ball or dance > take part in ball [verb (intransitive)] > be first to dance

to begin, lead the dancec1325

to dance provoa1687

to lead off1806

c1325 Coer de L. 3739 The damyseles lede daunse.

c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde ii. 504 Yet made he þo as fressh a contenaunce, As þough he schulde haue led þe newe daunce.

c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 360 Crist þat lediþ þe daunce of love.

a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Diiii Foly fotyth it properly fansy ledyth the dawnce.

1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 522/2 They must begin the dance to be punished.

a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Custome of Countrey ii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Aa3^v/1 They heard your Lordship Was by the Ladies choise to lead the dance.

1742 Mann Let. to H. Walpole 23 Sept. M. de Gages is now the man who begins the dance.

b. to lead, rarely give (a person) a dance; figurative to lead (him) in a wearying, perplexing, or disappointing course; to cause him to undergo exertion or worry with no adequate result.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > change direction of movement of [verb (transitive)] > traverse in winding course > lead person in perplexing course

to lead, rarely give (a person) a dancea1545

to lead (a person) the measures1594

to lead (a person) a dance1861

the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > worry > worry about [verb (transitive)] > cause worry to

busyeOE

fretc1290

exercise1531

to lead, rarely give (a person) a dancea1545

pingle1740

potter1763

fidget1785

worrit1818

worry1822

bite1909

disquieten1921

to stress out1983

a1545 Deth Edwarde IV in J. Skelton Certayne Bks. (c1563) 29 She [sc. Fortune] toke me by the hand and led me a daunce.

1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. H2 I pray God they may..both be led a darke daunce in the night.

1682 E. Hickeringill Wks. (1716) II. 37 I think he has led me a fair dance, I am so tyred.

1700 S. L. tr. C. Frick Relation Voy. in tr. C. Frick & C. Schweitzer Relation Two Voy. E.-Indies 45 [A monkey] led me such a dance, that I had almost stuck in the Slough.

1798 W. Hutton Life 65 I should have led them a dance of twenty miles to breakfast at Kidderminster.

1874 T. B. Aldrich Prudence Palfrey i. 12 It was notorious that the late Maria Jane had led Mr. Wiggins something of a dance in this life.

c. Dance of Death: an allegorical representation of Death leading men of all ranks and conditions in the dance to the grave: a very common subject of pictorial representation during the middle ages. Also called Dance of Macabre, French danse macabre: see Littré.

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the world > life > death > [noun] > dance of

Dance of Deathc1430

Dance of Macabrec1430

Totentanz1789

dance macabre1841

c1430 J. Lydgate Daunce Machabree Prol. The which daunce at sainct innocentes Portrayed is with all the surplusage.

c1430 J. Lydgate Daunce Machabree Prol. Death fyrst speaketh vnto the Pope, and after to euery degree as foloweth.

c1500 Lyfe Roberte Deuyll 591 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 242 For and we nowe in deathes daunce stode, To hell shoulde we go, with horrible vengeaunce.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clvi. f. lxxxv^v But deth y^t is to all persones egall, lastlye tooke hym in his dymme daunce whan he had ben Kyng...xlvii. yeres.

1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 378 The dance of Death..the Picture of death leading all estates.

1833 J. Dallaway Disc. Archit. Eng. (Stanf.) 137 The Dance of Macabre (Holbein's Dance of Death) was painted on the walls.

d. St. Vitus's dance: = chorea n.; also figurative and in extended use. Also St. Vitus's fit.Also St. John's, St. Guy's dance, terms applied to the dancing-mania of the middle ages.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [noun] > chorea

tirla1585

St. Vitus's dance1621

chorea1686

St. Vitus's jig1702

leaping ague1792

St. Vitus's fit1836

dancing-mania1877

Huntington's disease1889

Sydenham's chorea1892

dancing-plague-

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. i. i. iv. 15 Chorus sancti Viti, or Saint Vitus dance..they that are taken with it, can doe nothing but dance till they be dead.

1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. at Chorea Santi Viti St. Vitus's Dance.

1746 J. Andree (title) Cases of the epilepsy, hysteric fits, and St. Vitus's dance, with the process of cure.

1804 R. Southey in H. D. Traill Coleridge (1884) 106 His [Coleridge's] mind is in a perpetual St. Vitus's dance—eternal activity without action.

1836 T. Hood Comic Ann. 89 Ring Tom of Lincoln till he splits, And dance into St. Vitus' fits.

1840 A. Tweedie Syst. Pract. Med. II. 205 In St. John's dance, as well as in that of St. Vitus..a tympanic state of the abdomen was a frequent symptom.

1883 19th Cent. Sept. 537 He calls this policy ‘the policy of salutary agitation’, which I irreverently translate: ‘the St. Vitus' dance policy’.

1897 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon St. Vitus' dance of the voice, a name for Stammering.

e. dance upon nothing: an ironical expression for hanging (cf. dance v. 3b).

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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun]

hanginga1300

hangmentc1440

gallows1483

gibbet1502

Tyburn checka1529

Tyburn stretch1573

caudle of hempseed1588

hempen caudle1588

swinging1591

rope law1592

rope-leap1611

cording1619

turn1631

nubbing1673

cravatting1683

gibbetation1689

topping1699

Tyburn jig1699

noosing1819

scragging1819

Tyburn tie1828

Newgate hornpipe1829

dance upon nothing1841

drop1887

suspension1909

1841 T. Hood Miss Kilmansegg iv, in New Monthly Mag. 61 271 Just as the Felon condemn'd to die..From his gloomy cell in a vision elopes, To caper on sunny greens and slopes, Instead of the dance upon nothing.

1842 T. Hood in Comic Ann. 130 If a dance upon Sunday led so inevitably to a dance upon nothing!

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

dance-band n.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > company of instrumentalists > [noun] > band > type of

waits1298

consort1587

wait player1610

wind music1650

the fiddles1676

military band1775

German band1819

street band1826

brass band1834

promenade band1836

horn-band1849

pipe band1867

wind-band1876

Hungarian band1882

jazz band1916

jazz orchestra1916

big band1919

road band1922

Schrammel quartet1924

showband1926

spasm band1926

dance-band1927

marching band1930

name band1932

ork1933

silver band1933

sweet band1935

Schrammel orchestra1938

pop band1942

jug band1946

steel band1949

rehearsal band1957

skiffle band1957

ghost band1962

support band1969

support group1969

scratch band1982

1927 Melody Maker Aug. 739/1 It was his boast then that he would have a symphonic dance band.

1962 J. Wain Strike Father Dead 67 The convention that lays it down that English dance-band singers must put on an American accent.

dance-floor n.

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society > leisure > dancing > place for dancing > [noun] > floor for dancing

dancing-floor1839

floor1839

dance floor1874

dance-floor1928

1928 Melody Maker Feb. 171/3 The dance floor was crowded.

1959 M. Shadbolt New Zealanders 32 There was even a crude dance-floor erected for the night a little back from the beach.

dance-frock n.

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1904 Westm. Gaz. 18 Feb. 4/2 An accordion-pleated lace net is one of the prettiest dance-frocks I have seen for some time.

dance-leader n.

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c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 114 Dawnceledere, coralles.

dance-lover n.

dance-rhythm n.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun] > action of putting into rhythm > types of rhythm

swing1829

sprung rhythm1877

dance-rhythm1880

ragtime1896

slow drag1901

rumba1912

polymetre1922

cross-rhythm1926

tangana1926

counter-rhythm1927

ride1935

walking beat1935

ricky-tick1937

rock1937

shuffle rhythm1940

isorhythm1954

shuffle beat1955

tango rhythm1966

makossa1973

1880 G. Grove Dict. Music II. at Melody In the matter of rhythm there are two things which play a part—the rhythmic qualities of language, and dance rhythms.

1947 A. Einstein Music Romantic Era xvi. 290 A pathetic recitative changes suddenly into the most impudent dance-rhythm.

dance-step n.

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society > leisure > dancing > movements or steps > [noun] > step

step1678

pas1775

dance-step1920

1920 S. Lewis Main St. 380 The rude fiddling and banging dance-steps in the barn.

1936 Discovery June 186/2 For the different kinds of spirits [to be exorcised] different dances are held, each with its special dance-steps.

1962 Times 26 Apr. 8/1 Ready-made and established dance-steps.

dance-tune n.

dance-loving n.

C2.

dance-card n. a card bearing the names of (a woman's) prospective partners at a dance.

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society > leisure > dancing > ball or dance > [noun] > dance programme or card

ball-book1842

dance-card1895

programme1899

dance programme1906

1895 J. L. Williams Princeton Stories 199 You will here meet several of those whose names you have on your dance-card, and you may make up your mind whether to remember that fact or not.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses i. i. [Telemachus] 10 Old feather fans, tassled dancecards, powdered with musk.

dance-cellar n. U.S. a dancing-saloon beneath the ground level.

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society > leisure > dancing > place for dancing > [noun] > public dance hall > types of

dance-cellar1855

hurdy-gurdy house1866

bal musette1926

disco1957

discotheque1960

roller disco1978

1855 Knickerbocker Mag. 45 363 This is the dance-cellar of notorious Jim Poole!

dance-director n. the person who, in musical comedies, arranges the dances.

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1932 P. G. Wodehouse Louder & Funnier 84 The dance-director is instructed to think up a lot of different business for the first encore.

dance-drama n. a rendering through dancing of a dramatic situation.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > other types of play

king play1469

king game1504

historya1509

chronicle history1600

monology1608

horseplaya1627

piscatory1631

stock play1708

petite pièce1712

mimic1724

ballad opera1730

ballad farce1735

benefit-play1740

potboiler1783

monodrama1793

extravaganza1797

theo-drama1801

monodrame1803

proverb1803

stock piece1804

bespeak1807

ticket-night1812

dramaticle1813

monopolylogue1819

pièce d'occasion1830

interlude1831

mimea1834

costume piece1834

mummers' play1849

history play1850

gag-piece1860

music drama1874

well-made1881

playlet1884

two-decker1884

slum1885

kinderspiel1886

thrill1886

knockabout1887

two-hander1888

front-piece1889

thriller1889

shadow-play1890

mime play1894

problem play1894

one-acter1895

sex play1899

chronicle drama1902

thesis-play1902

star vehicle1904

folk-play1905

radio play1908

tab1915

spy play1919

one-act1920

pièce à thèse1923

dance-drama1924

a mess of plottage1926

turkey1927

weepie1928

musical1930

cliffhanger1931

mime drama1931

triangle drama1931

weeper1934

spine-chiller1940

starrer1941

scorcher1942

teleplay1947

straw-hatter1949

pièce noire1951

pièce rose1951

tab show1951

conversation piece1952

psychodrama1956

whydunit1968

mystery play1975

State of the Nation1980

1924 New Republic 26 Nov. 11 Spend a few hours in a New Mexico pueblo at the end of the day of one of their sacred dance-dramas.

1938 Encycl. Brit. Bk. of Year 251/2 Dance dramas, marionette shows, musical comedies, [etc.].

1958 Times 13 Aug. 5/3 Darrell's dance-drama The Prisoners..was not only topical..but also gripping.

1968 Jrnl. Music Acad. Madras 39 1 The dramatic poem of the Composer Nauka Caritram was also produced as a dance-drama.

dance-hall n. originally U.S. a public dancing saloon.

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society > leisure > dancing > place for dancing > [noun] > public dance hall

dancing-hall1753

dancing-room1788

dancing-house1818

dance hall1845

dance-house1848

dance-hall1858

palais de danse1900

palais1928

pally1928

track1945

1858 Mass. Acts & Resolves 125 Any person who shall offer to view..any..show, concert, or dance-hall exhibition of any description shall be punished by a fine.

1891 Scribner's Mag. Sept. 276/1 Port Said..abounds in French cafés and dance-halls.

1904 J. Conrad Nostromo i. viii. 107 From the doors of the dance hall men and women emerged tottering.

1934 T. S. Eliot Rock i. 40 Everythink useful for the people: dance 'alls, picture palaces, swimmin' baths.

dance hostess n. (a) a woman who holds a dance at her house, etc.; (b) a dancing-partner (dancing-partner n. (b) at dancing n. Compounds 2).

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1909 Daily Chron. 8 July 6/5 Lady Londesborough was one of the chief dance hostesses last night.

1934 F. B. Young This Little World ix. 179 A young woman of a most undesirable class—a ‘dance-hostess’ (the word was vaguely familiar and unpleasant) in a London night club.

1961 A. Wilson Old Men at Zoo ii. 113 She's a dance hostess.

dance-house n. = dance-hall n.

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society > leisure > dancing > place for dancing > [noun] > public dance hall

dancing-hall1753

dancing-room1788

dancing-house1818

dance hall1845

dance-house1848

dance-hall1858

palais de danse1900

palais1928

pally1928

track1945

1848 Western Boatman (Cincinnati) June 133 That afternoon I wrote a letter to a friend of mine in Natchez, who was a woman that kept a dance-house.

1875 H. B. Stowe We & our Neighbors xli. 375 He told me that he was in the constant habit of passing through the dance-houses, and talking with people who kept them.

1889 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 24 Apr. 1/8 To run a dance-house and gambling-den.

1946 G. Foreman Last Trek of Indians 256 His forsaken wife, Comes-at-Rain, sprang through the window of the dance house.

dance music n. ‘music designed as an accompaniment to dancing; also, music written in dance rhythm though not for dancing purposes’ (Grove Dict. Music).

1861 G. H. Kingsley in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 152 Very popular..as a means of producing dance music.

dance programme n. = dance-card n.

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society > leisure > dancing > ball or dance > [noun] > dance programme or card

ball-book1842

dance-card1895

programme1899

dance programme1906

1906 Dial. Notes 3 133 Got your dance-program filled up yet?

1913 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. I. ii. i. 149 The dance programme, with Muriel's name fourteen times repeated.

1926 S. T. Warner Lolly Willowes i. 42 A bunch of dance programmes kept for the sake of their little pencils.

1968 D. Hopkinson Incense-tree iv. 46 Dance programmes were usual—with the names of the dances on one side and space for the names of partners on the other, and a small pink pencil tied on with blue cord.

Draft additions June 2001

= dance music n. at Additions. Frequently attributive.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [noun] > other pop music

a cappella1905

soundclash1925

marabi1933

doo-wop1958

filk1959

folk-rock1963

Liverpool sound1963

Mersey beat1963

Mersey sound1963

surf music1963

malombo1964

mbaqanga1964

easy listening1965

disco music1966

Motown1966

boogaloo1967

power pop1967

psychedelia1967

yé-yé1967

agitpop1968

bubblegum1968

Tamla Motown1968

Tex-Mex1968

downtempo1969

taarab1969

thrash1969

world music1969

funk1970

MOR1970

tropicalism1970

Afrobeat1971

electro-pop1971

post-rock1971

techno-pop1971

Tropicalia1971

tropicalismo1971

disco1972

Krautrock1972

schlager1973

Afropop1974

punk funk1974

disco funk1975

Europop1976

mgqashiyo1976

P-funk1976

funkadelia1977

karaoke music1977

alternative music1978

hardcore1978

psychobilly1978

punkabilly1978

R&B1978

cowpunk1979

dangdut1979

hip-hop1979

Northern Soul1979

rap1979

rapping1979

jit1980

trance1980

benga1981

New Romanticism1981

post-punk1981

rap music1981

scratch1982

scratch-music1982

synth-pop1982

electro1983

garage1983

Latin1983

Philly1983

New Age1984

New Age music1985

ambient1986

Britpop1986

gangster rap1986

house1986

house music1986

mbalax1986

rai1986

trot1986

zouk1986

bhangra1987

garage1987

hip-house1987

new school1987

old school1987

thrashcore1987

acid1988

acid house1988

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1988 N.Y. Times 10 Jan. ii. 28/1 Relying on machines rather than people is bound to change music. (It already has on dance records, where repeating beats have been virtually already..taken over by machines.)

1993 Daily Tel. 1 July 18/4 In a festival so devoted to Sixties and Seventies retro, it is probably no coincidence that dance, the only significant pop music development since that period, was almost ignored in the programming.

1994 Face Jan. 44/2 Asked to describe it [sc. her album], she falters. ‘Erm... it's alternative, it's not really dance. I mean, when it goes into remixes and stuff and club 12-inches it will be.’

1998 S. Reynolds Energy Flash xii. 280 The soundtrack mixed proto-techno electronic dance with Wax Trax-style industrial and indiepop like The Smiths' ‘Girlfriend In A Coma’.

2000 Transition No. 80. 134/2 Techno, the late-1980s dance genre from black Detroit that eventually sparked the rave scene in Europe.

Draft additions March 2012

dance move n. a movement which forms part of a dance, esp. one consisting of a set routine of such movements; frequently in plural; cf. move n. 6a.

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society > leisure > dancing > movements or steps > [noun] > movement

movement1715

dance move1960

1960 M. V. Owen Fun of Figure Skating vii. 115 The waltz eight, the man's ten-step, the rolls, and the changes of edge, plus the threes you already know, form a broad foundation for building a repertoire of dance moves.

1994 C. Paglia Vamps & Tramps 370 Her eccentric fusion of avant-garde dance moves, disco-funk music, and hip urban waif fashion style.

2002 Adrenalin No. 13. 116/5 Behind them the DJ was shunting his hips and moving his fists beside them in tight circles. It was a dance move I'd previously only seen performed by children's TV presenters: the choo-choo train.

2010 Vanity Fair Feb. 36/1 If any of you youngsters want to try your hand doing Le Freak or the Hustle, two of the seminal dance moves of the period, check out VF.com for our step-by-step instructions.

Draft additions June 2001

dance music n. spec. a genre of popular music which is largely or wholly synthesized, has a repetitive beat, few or no lyrics, and frequently incorporates sound samples (cf. sample n.).

1987 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 4 Mar. 23 House is mean, pounding dance music... The beat goes boom, boom, boom, boom, with no real melody line and no relief.

1989 Blitz Jan. 34/3 Next year you'll see lots of fast dance music again, garage and house stuff, but this time with big vocals.

1995 J. Miller Voxpop i. 9 I like dance music and rave now, not hardcore, mostly garage and progressive.

2001 Evening Post (Bristol) (Electronic ed.) 25 Jan. Dance music has become very commercial with house tunes, trance anthems and hard house tracks crossing over into the mainstream charts.

Draft additions September 2019

dancesport n. competitive ballroom dancing.

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1989 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 12 June 10 They competed in the Highland Park Dancesport Classic at the Centre Theatre on the Gold Coast.

2018 V. Chmerkovskiy I'll never change my Name i. 16 My dad, my brother, and I helped in the push to get dancesport into the Olympics.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

dancev.

Brit.

/dɑːns/,

/dans/, U.S.

/dæns/

Forms: Middle English–1500s daunse, Middle English–1600s daunce, (Middle English dawnce, 1500s dans(s, danse), Middle English– dance.

Etymology: < Old French dance-r, danse-r = Provençal dansar, Spanish danzar, Portuguese dançar, dansar, Italian danzare. The origin of the Romanic word is obscure; it is generally held (after Diez) to be an adoption of Old High German dansôn to draw, to stretch out, from which is supposed to have arisen the sense ‘to form a file or chain in dancing’. From Romanic the word has been taken (back) in the sense ‘dance’ into German: Middle High German tanzen (11th cent., Middle Dutch dansen. (Old High German dansôn was a derivative form < dinsan = Gothic þinsan in at-þinsan to draw towards one.)

a. intransitive. To leap, skip, hop, or glide with measured steps and rhythmical movements of the body, usually to the accompaniment of music, either by oneself, or with a partner or in a set.

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society > leisure > dancing > [verb (intransitive)]

frikec1000

sail1297

dancec1300

sault1377

tripc1386

balea1400

hopc1405

foota1425

tracec1425

sallyc1440

to dance a fita1500

fling1528

to tread a measure, a dance1577

trip1578

traverse1584

move1594

to shake heels1595

to shake it1595

firk1596

tripudiate1623

pettitoe1651

step1698

jink1718

to stand up1753

bejig1821

to toe and heel (it)1828

morris1861

hoof1925

terp1945

society > leisure > dancing > [verb (transitive)]

leadOE

dancec1300

foota1500

move1568

trip1627

morris1844

c1300 K. Alis. 5213 Mery time it is in May..Maydens so dauncen and thay play.

1388 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) 2 Sam. vi. 14 Dauid..daunside with all strengthis bifor the Lord.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 147/3 He..sente them into the gardyn to daunse & to carolle.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 361 After dynner men avaunced them to daunce eche man with eche woman.

1645 J. Milton L'Allegro in Poems 34 Many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the Chequer'd shade.

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 466. ⁋3 You shall see her dance, or, if you will do her that Honour, dance with her.

1884 M. E. Braddon Ishmael ix I never danced with any one in my life until to-day. I have danced by myself in the yard sometimes when there was an organ.

†b. to dance barefoot: said of an elder sister when a younger one was married before her. Obsolete.

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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > unmarried person(s) > unmarried woman > [verb (intransitive)] > remain unmarried or be old maid

to lead apes in hell1578

to dance barefoota1616

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) ii. i. 33 She must haue a husband, I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day, And for your loue to her, leade Apes in hell.

1742 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 188 The eldest daughter was much disappointed that she should dance barefoot, and desired her father to find out a match for her.

c. Of animals taught to perform certain regular movements.

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the world > animals > by locomotion > locomotion of animals > [verb (intransitive)] > move about

raika1250

rakec1460

dance?1515

?1515 Hyckescorner (de Worde) sig. C.iii Than sholde ye daunce as a bere.

1854 J. G. Wood Sketches Animal Life 210 The education of most bears seldom aspires beyond teaching the animal to stand on its hind legs, and raise each foot alternately, a performance popularly entitled ‘dancing’.

d. transferred and figurative.

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c1430 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1544) i. viii. 11 a Beware afore or ye daunce in the rowe Of such as Fortune hath from her whele ithrow.

1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII v. iii. 62 I haue some of 'em in Limbo Patrum, and there they are like to dance these three dayes.

e. to dance to or after (a person's) pipe, whistle, etc.: figurative to follow his lead, act after his desire or instigation.

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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > imitate [verb (intransitive)] > follow an example

borrow?c1225

to walk in (or tread) a person's stepsa1240

to take example from (also by, at, of)c1405

to dance to or after (a person's) pipe, whistle1546

patrizate1623

patrizizea1642

to follow suit1747

to take a leaf out of a person's book1809

pattern1820

society > authority > subjection > obedience > obey or be obedient to [verb (transitive)] > comply with the will of

suea1300

conform1482

to dance to or after (a person's) pipe, whistle1546

morigerate1623

comply1650

correspond1677

supple1741

1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. vi. sig. I To daunce after her pipe, I am ny led.

1604 T. Middleton Ant & Nightingale sig. C2^v Till the old deuourer..Death, had made our Landlord daunce after his Pipe.

1707 J. Norris Pract. Treat. Humility iii. 98 When a man..dances to the tune of the age wherein he lives.

1823 W. Scott Peveril I. vi. 161 I thought I had the prettiest girl in the Castle dancing after my whistle.

1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) I. 523 That most of these councillors..will ‘dance to Rome's piping’, if they do but see her gold.

a. To leap, skip, spring, or move up and down, with continuously recurring movement, from excitement or strong emotion. Said also of the lively skipping or prancing of animals, and of the heart, the blood in the veins, etc.

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the mind > emotion > excitement > be or become excited [verb (intransitive)] > leap or skip with excitement

dancec1400

to jump (also leap) out of one's skin1567

c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 345 Þoȝ þou daunce as any do, Braundysch, & brais þy braþez breme.

c1400–50 Alexander 2618 For þe dowt of þe dyn daunced stedis.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. gvi^v Some were constrayned to leape and daunce for ioye.

1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Ei The woman runneth vp and down, daunsing continually like a frantike bodie.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 112 I haue Tremor Cordis on me: my heart daunces, But not for ioy.

a1720 J. Sheffield Wks. (1753) I. 160 The blood more lively danc'd within our veins.

1792 S. Rogers Pleasures Mem. i. 142 When the heart danced, and life was in its spring.

1819 C. Lamb in Examiner 14 Feb. 109/1 He saw, unseen, the happy girl unfold the Valentine, dance about, clap her hands.

1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 27 Yniol's heart Danced in his bosom, seeing better days.

b. To run, go, or move on with dancing or tripping motion.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > leap, spring, or jump [verb (intransitive)] > caper

leapc900

playOE

floxec1200

startlec1300

trancec1374

prancec1380

tripc1386

scoupa1400

prankc1450

gambol1508

frisk?1520

jeta1529

pract1568

trounce1568

trip1578

capriole1580

lavolta1590

linch1593

curvet1595

flisk1595

firk1596

caper1598

jaunce1599

risec1599

cabre1600

jaunt1605

skit1611

to cut a caper or capersa1616

tripudiate1623

insult1652

to fike and flinga1689

scamper1691

dance1712

pranklea1717

cavort1794

jinket1823

gambado1827

caracol1861

1712 J. Arbuthnot Law is Bottomless-pit i. x. 19 How you have danc'd the Round of all the Courts.

1820 W. Scott Abbot II. ix. 273 The moments..danced so rapidly away.

1820 W. Scott Abbot III. vii. 224 Some sprightly damsel, who thinks to dance through life as through a French galliard.

1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton ii. 20 These boys of twenty-five will dance over the world's edge in pursuit of a theory.

a. Of things inanimate: To bob up and down on the ground, on the surface of water, in the air, etc. Often with personification or figurative reference to gay and sprightly motion.

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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > move to and fro or up and down [verb (intransitive)]

to come and goc1384

babble1440

play1513

popple1555

dance1563

bob1568

dodge1645

waft1650

reciprocate1678

lollop1851

pump1887

piston1930

yo-yo1967

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > move to and fro or up and down [verb (intransitive)] > bob

dance1563

boba1794

bobble1812

1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors ii. f. 7^v The flame appeareth to leape or daunce from one parte to the other, much lyke as balls of wylde fyer daunce vp and downe in the water.

1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Fvj Whilst thy ship doth kepe a flote Ydauncinge on the plaine.

1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 231 Why the limb of the Sun, Moon, Jupiter..and Venus, appear to move or dance.

1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. viii. 139 Care must be taken that the Bressummers and Girders be not weakned more than needs, least the whole Floor dance.

1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 13 Light as the mote that daunceth in the beam.

1884 Queen Victoria More Leaves 138 The little boat rolled and danced.

b. Grimly applied to the movements of the body in or after death by hanging; to dance upon nothing, to be hanged.

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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > be hanged [verb (intransitive)]

rideeOE

hangc1000

anhangc1300

wagc1430

totter?1515

to wave in the windc1515

swing1542

trine1567

to look through ——?1570

to preach at Tyburn cross1576

stretch?1576

to stretch a rope1592

truss1592

to look through a hempen window?a1600

gibbet1600

to have the lift1604

to salute Tyburn1640

to dance the Tyburn jig1664

dangle1678

to cut a caper on nothing1708

string1714

twist1725

to wallop in a tow (also tether)1786

to streek in a halter1796

to straight a ropea1800

strap1815

to dance upon nothing1837

to streek a tow1895

1837 J. Richardson Brit. Legion (ed. 2) viii. 210 To see a fellow-being dancing in air after death, in the manner practised in England.

1839 W. H. Ainsworth Jack Sheppard III. iii. xxxi. 292 ‘You'll dance upon nothing, presently’, rejoined Jonathan, brutally.

1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. viii. iv. 322 This poor soldier, six feet three, your Majesty, is to dance on the top of nothing for a three-halfpenny matter!

a. transitive with the name or description of a dance or measure as cognate object.

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c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (MS. Gg) Prol. 200 Daunsynge aboute this flour an esy pas.

1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xvi. xix To daunce true mesures without varyaunce.

1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. G4^v They have daunst a Galliard at Beggers bush for it.

a1627 T. Middleton Chast Mayd in Cheape-side (1630) iv. 53 As if they'd daunce the Sword-dance on the Stage.

1762 O. Goldsmith Life R. Nash 34 A minuet, danced by two persons.

1844 E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 142 If you could see the little girl dance the Polka with her sister!

†b. to dance Barnaby: to dance to a quick movement, move expeditiously. to dance the Tyburn jig: to be hanged: cf. 3b. Obsolete.

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society > leisure > dancing > style or manner of dancing > [verb (intransitive)]

frisk?1520

hobble1535

caper1598

to cut a caper or capersa1616

to dance Barnaby1664

to dance low1667

jig1672

to fike and flinga1689

shuffle1819

slow-step1909

dingolay1935

touch-dance1972

headbang1977

to funk out1979

to strut one's funky stuff1979

krump2004

the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > proceed rapidly [verb (intransitive)] > act expeditiously

to make (it) short1490

dispatch1581

to be brief1609

to claw it off1615

to dance Barnaby1664

society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > be hanged [verb (intransitive)]

rideeOE

hangc1000

anhangc1300

wagc1430

totter?1515

to wave in the windc1515

swing1542

trine1567

to look through ——?1570

to preach at Tyburn cross1576

stretch?1576

to stretch a rope1592

truss1592

to look through a hempen window?a1600

gibbet1600

to have the lift1604

to salute Tyburn1640

to dance the Tyburn jig1664

dangle1678

to cut a caper on nothing1708

string1714

twist1725

to wallop in a tow (also tether)1786

to streek in a halter1796

to straight a ropea1800

strap1815

to dance upon nothing1837

to streek a tow1895

1664 C. Cotton Scarronides 15 Bounce cries the Port-hole, out they fly And make the World dance Barnaby.

1664 G. Etherege Comical Revenge v. ii. 71 Widow, here is Musique; send for a Parson, And we will dance Barnaby within this Half hour.

1697 J. Vanbrugh Relapse Epil. 106 Did ever one yet dance the Tyburn Jigg With a free air, ar a well pawder'd Wigg?

5. to dance attendance: to wait (upon a person) with assiduous attention and ready obsequiousness; originally to stand waiting or ‘kicking one's heels’ in an antechamber. See also attendance n. 5.

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the mind > emotion > humility > servility > be servile [verb (intransitive)] > attend in servile manner

to dance attendancea1529

a1529 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte (?1545) 626 And Syr ye must daunce attendance, And take patient sufferaunce, For my Lords Grace, Hath now no time or space, To speke with you as yet.

1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII v. ii. 30 To suffer A man of his Place..To dance attendance on their Lordships pleasures, And at the dore too, like a Post with Packets.

a1674 T. Traherne Christian Ethicks (1675) 380 Few have observed that the Sun, and Moon, and Stars dance attendance to it [sc. the earth], and cherish it with their Influences.

1768 T. Gray in Let. 29 May in Corr. (1971) III. 1033 Here are a pair of your stray shoes, dancing attendance, till you send for them.

1883 J. Gilmour Among Mongols xxxi. 362 After dancing attendance on the court for a month or two they receive their dismission.

6. causal.

a. To lead in a dance, cause to dance.

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1665 S. Pepys Diary 11 Oct. (1972) VI. 263 Having danced my people as long as I saw fit to sit up, I to bed.

1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VI. ii. 3 When my father had danced his white bear backwards and forwards through half a dozen pages.

1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer i. 11 Tho' I am obligated to dance a bear, a man may be a gentleman for all that.

b. To move or toss up and down with a dancing jerky motion; to dandle.

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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > move to and fro or up and down [verb (transitive)] > jog or jolt to and fro or up and down > a child on the knee

dance1382

dandle1530

trot1853

1382 J. Wyclif Isa. lxvi. 12 Vp on the knes men shul daunte [ MS. H. a1450 daunsen] ȝou.

1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. x. sig. Liv In hope..In hir dotyng daies to be daunst on the lappe.

a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Spanish Curat ii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. E4/1 I have dandled ye, and kist ye and plaid with ye..and danc'd ye.

1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 418 To dance a child in one's arms.

1773 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1988) I. 281 It was no sport to me to be Danced up & down, & to find the Waves..rougher every instant.

1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam Epil. 205 I that danced her on my knee.

7. With complement: To remove, put, bring, impel, etc., off, away, out, in, etc., by dancing.

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a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 208 So was the blessed head of John..danced off his shoulders by a Harlot.

1787 Generous Attachm. I. 200 I danced away the recollection of it.

1812 Ld. Byron Waltz vii Her nimble feet danced off another's head.

1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire V. l. 557 That an obscure player..should dance himself into the chamber of the empress.

1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians I. iv. 57 Like a lady danced off her sense of fixity.

1894 N.E.D. at Dance Mod. I fear he has danced away his chance.

8. U.S. (now historical). In former North American Indian tradition: to rejoice over by dancing round (a trophy, esp. a captured scalp).

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1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians I. 31 After having been formally ‘danced’, as the saying is, (i.e. after it [sc. a scalp] has been stuck up upon a pole..and the warriors have danced around it for two or three weeks at intervals).

1846 R. B. Sage Scenes Rocky Mts. (1859) 126 Rarely did we return empty-handed from the foeman's land—without..scalps to dance.

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单词	dance
释义	dancen. Brit. /dɑːns/, /dans/, U.S. /dæns/ Forms: Middle English–1600s daunce, (Middle English dauns(e, Middle English–1500s dawnce, 1500s dans(s), Middle English– dance. Etymology: < Old French dance, danse, < the verb dancer, danser. So Provençal dansa, Catalan dansa, Spanish danza, Portuguese dança, dansa, Italian danza; also German tanz, Dutch dans. 1. A rhythmical skipping and stepping, with regular turnings and movements of the limbs and body, usually to the accompaniment of music; either as an expression of joy, exultation, and the like, or as an amusement or entertainment; the action or an act or round of dancing. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > [noun] hoppingc1290 dancec1300 dancinga1340 sallyingc1440 footinga1450 balla1571 tracing1577 orchestra1596 measuring1598 dancery?1615 saltation1623 tripudiation1623 poetry of motion (also the foot)1654 light fantastic1832 rug-cutting1937 terping1942 c1300 K. Alis. 6990 Murye they syngyn, and daunces maken. 1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 4684 Daunces, karols, somour games. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 7601 In her daunse [Gött. dauncing, Vesp. karol] þis was þe song. c1400 Rom. Rose 808 It to me liked right wele, That Courtesie me cleped so, And bade me on the daunce go. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms cxlix. 3 Let them prayse his name in the daunce. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. i. 254 Luld in these flowers, with daunces and delight. View more context for this quotation 1611 Bible (King James) Judges xxi. 21 If the daughters of Shiloh come out to daunce in daunces. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 619 That day..they spent In song and dance about the sacred Hill. View more context for this quotation 1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 181 Leaps, wildly graceful, in the lively dance. 1762 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting II. iii. 92 The holy family with a dance of Angels..is a capital picture. 1841 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley cxviii Waltzers whirled past in the wild excitement of the dance. 1894 N.E.D. at Dance Mod. Her partner for the next dance. 2. a. A definite succession or arrangement of steps and rhythmical movements constituting one particular form or method of dancing. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > [noun] > a dance chore1382 dance1393 measure?c1430 virlyc1430 tracec1450 platfoot1559 hop-about1593 firk1637 footing1652 ballet1786 stand-up1861 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 365 The hove daunce and the carole. 1521 R. Copland in A. Barclay Introd. Frenche f. 16, (title) Maner of Dauncynge of base daunces after the vse of Fraunce. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V ii. iv. 25 If we heard England were busied with a Moris dance. 1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. i. 55 A kinde of dance which they use also in Spaine..called The Canaries. 1711 E. Budgell Spectator No. 67. ⁋2 Pyrrhus..Inventing the Dance which is called after his Name. 1879 H. N. Moseley Notes by Naturalist on ‘Challenger’ 331 The most interesting dances were a Club Dance and a Fan Dance. b. A tune or musical composition for regulating the movements of a dance, or composed in a dance rhythm. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > dance music > [noun] springa1475 dance1509 ballo1825 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xvi. xix She commaunded her mynstrelles right anone to play..the gentill daunce. 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 180 Ballete or daunces..songs, which being song to a dittie may likewise be daunced. 1711 E. Budgell Spectator No. 67. ⁋9 [He] bid the Fidlers play a Dance called Mol Patley. 1880 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 350/1 His [Chopin's] first..compositions were dances: Polonaises, Mazurkas, and Valses. 3. A social gathering for the purpose of dancing; a dancing party. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > ball or dance > [noun] treschec1290 hoppingc1330 dancec1385 ball?1605 ballet1657 dancing-match1740 dancing-assembly1765 fandango1766 dancing-party1852 German1853 rag1899 ngoma1905 rat race1937 c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Dido. 1269 And waytyn hire at festis and at dauncis. 1790 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter 178 in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 563 Ah! little kenn'd thy reverend grannie, That sark she coft for her wee Nannie..Wad ever grac'd a dance of witches! a1845 R. H. Barham Wedding-day in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. 211 When asked to a party, A dance, or a dinner. 1894 N.E.D. at Dance Mod. Mrs. S. is giving a dance instead of a garden party this year. 4. transferred and figurative. ΚΠ 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 85. ⁋4 The dance of spirits, the bound of vigour..are reserved for him that braces his nerves. 1879 J. Stainer Music of Bible 3 One might say that rhythm is the dance of sound. 1881 Daily Tel. 28 Jan. The dance of the waters, especially to windward, was visible for over a mile around. †5. figurative. Course of action; mode of procedure, play, game. to know the old dance: cf. French ‘elle sçait assez de la vieille danse, she knowes well enough what belongs to the Game’ (Cotgrave). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > a proceeding > [noun] thingOE processa1325 fare1340 dancea1352 passage1569 play1581 procedure1590 carriage1609 conduct1706 démarche1721 affair1797 proceeding1801 the world > action or operation > behaviour > [noun] > (a) course of conduct or action wayeOE pathOE waya1225 tracea1300 line13.. dancea1352 tenor1398 featc1420 faction1447 rink?a1500 footpath1535 trade1536 vein1549 tract1575 course1582 road1600 country dance1613 track1638 steeragea1641 rhumb1666 tack1675 conduct1706 walk1755 wheel-way1829 a1352 L. Minot Poems i. 66 At Donde now es done þaire daunce, And wend þai most anoþer way. a1352 L. Minot Poems v. 14 Sare it þam smerted þat ferd out of France, Þare lered Inglis men þam a new daunce. c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 478 Of remedies of loue she knew per chaunce For she koude of that art the olde daunce. 1423 Kingis Quair clxxxv Tham that ar noght entrit inne The dance of lufe. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 86 God for his merci and pitee kepe Ynglond, that he come not into lijk daunce. a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 53/1 The lord Stanley and he had departed with diuerse other lordes, and broken all the daunce. 1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age ii. i. xv. 200 The Emperour..troubled, at this too long, and too bloody dance. 1733 Walpole in Morley Life (1889) viii. 174 This dance..will no further go. I meant well, but..the Act could not be carried into execution without an armed force. 6. Phrases: a. to begin, lead the dance; figurative to take the lead in any course of action. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > be in control [verb (intransitive)] > lead to begin, lead the dancec1325 to take the (or a) lead1745 skipper1883 the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > advance, progress, or develop [verb (intransitive)] > lead the way to begin, lead the dancec1325 to lead (also rule) the ringa1450 to lead (bear, have) the vana1661 pioneer1780 to take up the running1825 blaze1841 to lead the way1874 society > leisure > dancing > ball or dance > take part in ball [verb (intransitive)] > be first to dance to begin, lead the dancec1325 to dance provoa1687 to lead off1806 c1325 Coer de L. 3739 The damyseles lede daunse. c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde ii. 504 Yet made he þo as fressh a contenaunce, As þough he schulde haue led þe newe daunce. c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 360 Crist þat lediþ þe daunce of love. a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Diiii Foly fotyth it properly fansy ledyth the dawnce. 1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 522/2 They must begin the dance to be punished. a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Custome of Countrey ii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Aa3^v/1 They heard your Lordship Was by the Ladies choise to lead the dance. 1742 Mann Let. to H. Walpole 23 Sept. M. de Gages is now the man who begins the dance. b. to lead, rarely give (a person) a dance; figurative to lead (him) in a wearying, perplexing, or disappointing course; to cause him to undergo exertion or worry with no adequate result. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > change direction of movement of [verb (transitive)] > traverse in winding course > lead person in perplexing course to lead, rarely give (a person) a dancea1545 to lead (a person) the measures1594 to lead (a person) a dance1861 the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > worry > worry about [verb (transitive)] > cause worry to busyeOE fretc1290 exercise1531 to lead, rarely give (a person) a dancea1545 pingle1740 potter1763 fidget1785 worrit1818 worry1822 bite1909 disquieten1921 to stress out1983 a1545 Deth Edwarde IV in J. Skelton Certayne Bks. (c1563) 29 She [sc. Fortune] toke me by the hand and led me a daunce. 1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. H2 I pray God they may..both be led a darke daunce in the night. 1682 E. Hickeringill Wks. (1716) II. 37 I think he has led me a fair dance, I am so tyred. 1700 S. L. tr. C. Frick Relation Voy. in tr. C. Frick & C. Schweitzer Relation Two Voy. E.-Indies 45 [A monkey] led me such a dance, that I had almost stuck in the Slough. 1798 W. Hutton Life 65 I should have led them a dance of twenty miles to breakfast at Kidderminster. 1874 T. B. Aldrich Prudence Palfrey i. 12 It was notorious that the late Maria Jane had led Mr. Wiggins something of a dance in this life. c. Dance of Death: an allegorical representation of Death leading men of all ranks and conditions in the dance to the grave: a very common subject of pictorial representation during the middle ages. Also called Dance of Macabre, French danse macabre: see Littré. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > dance of Dance of Deathc1430 Dance of Macabrec1430 Totentanz1789 dance macabre1841 c1430 J. Lydgate Daunce Machabree Prol. The which daunce at sainct innocentes Portrayed is with all the surplusage. c1430 J. Lydgate Daunce Machabree Prol. Death fyrst speaketh vnto the Pope, and after to euery degree as foloweth. c1500 Lyfe Roberte Deuyll 591 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 242 For and we nowe in deathes daunce stode, To hell shoulde we go, with horrible vengeaunce. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clvi. f. lxxxv^v But deth y^t is to all persones egall, lastlye tooke hym in his dymme daunce whan he had ben Kyng...xlvii. yeres. 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 378 The dance of Death..the Picture of death leading all estates. 1833 J. Dallaway Disc. Archit. Eng. (Stanf.) 137 The Dance of Macabre (Holbein's Dance of Death) was painted on the walls. d. St. Vitus's dance: = chorea n.; also figurative and in extended use. Also St. Vitus's fit.Also St. John's, St. Guy's dance, terms applied to the dancing-mania of the middle ages. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [noun] > chorea tirla1585 St. Vitus's dance1621 chorea1686 St. Vitus's jig1702 leaping ague1792 St. Vitus's fit1836 dancing-mania1877 Huntington's disease1889 Sydenham's chorea1892 dancing-plague- 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. i. i. iv. 15 Chorus sancti Viti, or Saint Vitus dance..they that are taken with it, can doe nothing but dance till they be dead. 1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. at Chorea Santi Viti St. Vitus's Dance. 1746 J. Andree (title) Cases of the epilepsy, hysteric fits, and St. Vitus's dance, with the process of cure. 1804 R. Southey in H. D. Traill Coleridge (1884) 106 His [Coleridge's] mind is in a perpetual St. Vitus's dance—eternal activity without action. 1836 T. Hood Comic Ann. 89 Ring Tom of Lincoln till he splits, And dance into St. Vitus' fits. 1840 A. Tweedie Syst. Pract. Med. II. 205 In St. John's dance, as well as in that of St. Vitus..a tympanic state of the abdomen was a frequent symptom. 1883 19th Cent. Sept. 537 He calls this policy ‘the policy of salutary agitation’, which I irreverently translate: ‘the St. Vitus' dance policy’. 1897 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon St. Vitus' dance of the voice, a name for Stammering. e. dance upon nothing: an ironical expression for hanging (cf. dance v. 3b). ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] hanginga1300 hangmentc1440 gallows1483 gibbet1502 Tyburn checka1529 Tyburn stretch1573 caudle of hempseed1588 hempen caudle1588 swinging1591 rope law1592 rope-leap1611 cording1619 turn1631 nubbing1673 cravatting1683 gibbetation1689 topping1699 Tyburn jig1699 noosing1819 scragging1819 Tyburn tie1828 Newgate hornpipe1829 dance upon nothing1841 drop1887 suspension1909 1841 T. Hood Miss Kilmansegg iv, in New Monthly Mag. 61 271 Just as the Felon condemn'd to die..From his gloomy cell in a vision elopes, To caper on sunny greens and slopes, Instead of the dance upon nothing. 1842 T. Hood in Comic Ann. 130 If a dance upon Sunday led so inevitably to a dance upon nothing! Compounds C1. General attributive. a. dance-band n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > company of instrumentalists > [noun] > band > type of waits1298 consort1587 wait player1610 wind music1650 the fiddles1676 military band1775 German band1819 street band1826 brass band1834 promenade band1836 horn-band1849 pipe band1867 wind-band1876 Hungarian band1882 jazz band1916 jazz orchestra1916 big band1919 road band1922 Schrammel quartet1924 showband1926 spasm band1926 dance-band1927 marching band1930 name band1932 ork1933 silver band1933 sweet band1935 Schrammel orchestra1938 pop band1942 jug band1946 steel band1949 rehearsal band1957 skiffle band1957 ghost band1962 support band1969 support group1969 scratch band1982 1927 Melody Maker Aug. 739/1 It was his boast then that he would have a symphonic dance band. 1962 J. Wain Strike Father Dead 67 The convention that lays it down that English dance-band singers must put on an American accent. dance-floor n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > place for dancing > [noun] > floor for dancing dancing-floor1839 floor1839 dance floor1874 dance-floor1928 1928 Melody Maker Feb. 171/3 The dance floor was crowded. 1959 M. Shadbolt New Zealanders 32 There was even a crude dance-floor erected for the night a little back from the beach. dance-frock n. ΚΠ 1904 Westm. Gaz. 18 Feb. 4/2 An accordion-pleated lace net is one of the prettiest dance-frocks I have seen for some time. dance-leader n. ΚΠ c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 114 Dawnceledere, coralles. dance-lover n. dance-rhythm n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun] > action of putting into rhythm > types of rhythm swing1829 sprung rhythm1877 dance-rhythm1880 ragtime1896 slow drag1901 rumba1912 polymetre1922 cross-rhythm1926 tangana1926 counter-rhythm1927 ride1935 walking beat1935 ricky-tick1937 rock1937 shuffle rhythm1940 isorhythm1954 shuffle beat1955 tango rhythm1966 makossa1973 1880 G. Grove Dict. Music II. at Melody In the matter of rhythm there are two things which play a part—the rhythmic qualities of language, and dance rhythms. 1947 A. Einstein Music Romantic Era xvi. 290 A pathetic recitative changes suddenly into the most impudent dance-rhythm. dance-step n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > movements or steps > [noun] > step step1678 pas1775 dance-step1920 1920 S. Lewis Main St. 380 The rude fiddling and banging dance-steps in the barn. 1936 Discovery June 186/2 For the different kinds of spirits [to be exorcised] different dances are held, each with its special dance-steps. 1962 Times 26 Apr. 8/1 Ready-made and established dance-steps. dance-tune n. b. dance-loving n. C2. dance-card n. a card bearing the names of (a woman's) prospective partners at a dance. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > ball or dance > [noun] > dance programme or card ball-book1842 dance-card1895 programme1899 dance programme1906 1895 J. L. Williams Princeton Stories 199 You will here meet several of those whose names you have on your dance-card, and you may make up your mind whether to remember that fact or not. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses i. i. [Telemachus] 10 Old feather fans, tassled dancecards, powdered with musk. dance-cellar n. U.S. a dancing-saloon beneath the ground level. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > place for dancing > [noun] > public dance hall > types of dance-cellar1855 hurdy-gurdy house1866 bal musette1926 disco1957 discotheque1960 roller disco1978 1855 Knickerbocker Mag. 45 363 This is the dance-cellar of notorious Jim Poole! dance-director n. the person who, in musical comedies, arranges the dances. ΚΠ 1932 P. G. Wodehouse Louder & Funnier 84 The dance-director is instructed to think up a lot of different business for the first encore. dance-drama n. a rendering through dancing of a dramatic situation. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > other types of play king play1469 king game1504 historya1509 chronicle history1600 monology1608 horseplaya1627 piscatory1631 stock play1708 petite pièce1712 mimic1724 ballad opera1730 ballad farce1735 benefit-play1740 potboiler1783 monodrama1793 extravaganza1797 theo-drama1801 monodrame1803 proverb1803 stock piece1804 bespeak1807 ticket-night1812 dramaticle1813 monopolylogue1819 pièce d'occasion1830 interlude1831 mimea1834 costume piece1834 mummers' play1849 history play1850 gag-piece1860 music drama1874 well-made1881 playlet1884 two-decker1884 slum1885 kinderspiel1886 thrill1886 knockabout1887 two-hander1888 front-piece1889 thriller1889 shadow-play1890 mime play1894 problem play1894 one-acter1895 sex play1899 chronicle drama1902 thesis-play1902 star vehicle1904 folk-play1905 radio play1908 tab1915 spy play1919 one-act1920 pièce à thèse1923 dance-drama1924 a mess of plottage1926 turkey1927 weepie1928 musical1930 cliffhanger1931 mime drama1931 triangle drama1931 weeper1934 spine-chiller1940 starrer1941 scorcher1942 teleplay1947 straw-hatter1949 pièce noire1951 pièce rose1951 tab show1951 conversation piece1952 psychodrama1956 whydunit1968 mystery play1975 State of the Nation1980 1924 New Republic 26 Nov. 11 Spend a few hours in a New Mexico pueblo at the end of the day of one of their sacred dance-dramas. 1938 Encycl. Brit. Bk. of Year 251/2 Dance dramas, marionette shows, musical comedies, [etc.]. 1958 Times 13 Aug. 5/3 Darrell's dance-drama The Prisoners..was not only topical..but also gripping. 1968 Jrnl. Music Acad. Madras 39 1 The dramatic poem of the Composer Nauka Caritram was also produced as a dance-drama. dance-hall n. originally U.S. a public dancing saloon. ΘΠ society > leisure > dancing > place for dancing > [noun] > public dance hall dancing-hall1753 dancing-room1788 dancing-house1818 dance hall1845 dance-house1848 dance-hall1858 palais de danse1900 palais1928 pally1928 track1945 1858 Mass. Acts & Resolves 125 Any person who shall offer to view..any..show, concert, or dance-hall exhibition of any description shall be punished by a fine. 1891 Scribner's Mag. Sept. 276/1 Port Said..abounds in French cafés and dance-halls. 1904 J. Conrad Nostromo i. viii. 107 From the doors of the dance hall men and women emerged tottering. 1934 T. S. Eliot Rock i. 40 Everythink useful for the people: dance 'alls, picture palaces, swimmin' baths. dance hostess n. (a) a woman who holds a dance at her house, etc.; (b) a dancing-partner (dancing-partner n. (b) at dancing n. Compounds 2). ΚΠ 1909 Daily Chron. 8 July 6/5 Lady Londesborough was one of the chief dance hostesses last night. 1934 F. B. Young This Little World ix. 179 A young woman of a most undesirable class—a ‘dance-hostess’ (the word was vaguely familiar and unpleasant) in a London night club. 1961 A. Wilson Old Men at Zoo ii. 113 She's a dance hostess. dance-house n. = dance-hall n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > place for dancing > [noun] > public dance hall dancing-hall1753 dancing-room1788 dancing-house1818 dance hall1845 dance-house1848 dance-hall1858 palais de danse1900 palais1928 pally1928 track1945 1848 Western Boatman (Cincinnati) June 133 That afternoon I wrote a letter to a friend of mine in Natchez, who was a woman that kept a dance-house. 1875 H. B. Stowe We & our Neighbors xli. 375 He told me that he was in the constant habit of passing through the dance-houses, and talking with people who kept them. 1889 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 24 Apr. 1/8 To run a dance-house and gambling-den. 1946 G. Foreman Last Trek of Indians 256 His forsaken wife, Comes-at-Rain, sprang through the window of the dance house. dance music n. ‘music designed as an accompaniment to dancing; also, music written in dance rhythm though not for dancing purposes’ (Grove Dict. Music). Π 1861 G. H. Kingsley in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 152 Very popular..as a means of producing dance music. dance programme n. = dance-card n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > ball or dance > [noun] > dance programme or card ball-book1842 dance-card1895 programme1899 dance programme1906 1906 Dial. Notes 3 133 Got your dance-program filled up yet? 1913 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. I. ii. i. 149 The dance programme, with Muriel's name fourteen times repeated. 1926 S. T. Warner Lolly Willowes i. 42 A bunch of dance programmes kept for the sake of their little pencils. 1968 D. Hopkinson Incense-tree iv. 46 Dance programmes were usual—with the names of the dances on one side and space for the names of partners on the other, and a small pink pencil tied on with blue cord. Draft additions June 2001 = dance music n. at Additions. Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [noun] > other pop music a cappella1905 soundclash1925 marabi1933 doo-wop1958 filk1959 folk-rock1963 Liverpool sound1963 Mersey beat1963 Mersey sound1963 surf music1963 malombo1964 mbaqanga1964 easy listening1965 disco music1966 Motown1966 boogaloo1967 power pop1967 psychedelia1967 yé-yé1967 agitpop1968 bubblegum1968 Tamla Motown1968 Tex-Mex1968 downtempo1969 taarab1969 thrash1969 world music1969 funk1970 MOR1970 tropicalism1970 Afrobeat1971 electro-pop1971 post-rock1971 techno-pop1971 Tropicalia1971 tropicalismo1971 disco1972 Krautrock1972 schlager1973 Afropop1974 punk funk1974 disco funk1975 Europop1976 mgqashiyo1976 P-funk1976 funkadelia1977 karaoke music1977 alternative music1978 hardcore1978 psychobilly1978 punkabilly1978 R&B1978 cowpunk1979 dangdut1979 hip-hop1979 Northern Soul1979 rap1979 rapping1979 jit1980 trance1980 benga1981 New Romanticism1981 post-punk1981 rap music1981 scratch1982 scratch-music1982 synth-pop1982 electro1983 garage1983 Latin1983 Philly1983 New Age1984 New Age music1985 ambient1986 Britpop1986 gangster rap1986 house1986 house music1986 mbalax1986 rai1986 trot1986 zouk1986 bhangra1987 garage1987 hip-house1987 new school1987 old school1987 thrashcore1987 acid1988 acid house1988 acid jazz1988 ambience1988 Cantopop1988 dance1988 deep house1988 industrial1988 swingbeat1988 techno1988 dream pop1989 gangsta rap1989 multiculti1989 new jack swing1989 noise-pop1989 rave1989 Tejano1989 breakbeat1990 chill-out music1990 indie1990 new jack1990 new jill swing1990 noisecore1990 baggy1991 drum and bass1991 gangsta1991 handbag house1991 hip-pop1991 loungecore1991 psychedelic trance1991 shoegazing1991 slowcore1991 techno-house1991 gabba1992 jungle1992 sadcore1992 UK garage1992 darkcore1993 dark side1993 electronica1993 G-funk1993 sampladelia1994 trip hop1994 break1996 psy-trance1996 nu skool1997 folktronica1999 dubstep2002 Bongo Flava2003 grime2003 Bongo2004 singeli2015 1988 N.Y. Times 10 Jan. ii. 28/1 Relying on machines rather than people is bound to change music. (It already has on dance records, where repeating beats have been virtually already..taken over by machines.) 1993 Daily Tel. 1 July 18/4 In a festival so devoted to Sixties and Seventies retro, it is probably no coincidence that dance, the only significant pop music development since that period, was almost ignored in the programming. 1994 Face Jan. 44/2 Asked to describe it [sc. her album], she falters. ‘Erm... it's alternative, it's not really dance. I mean, when it goes into remixes and stuff and club 12-inches it will be.’ 1998 S. Reynolds Energy Flash xii. 280 The soundtrack mixed proto-techno electronic dance with Wax Trax-style industrial and indiepop like The Smiths' ‘Girlfriend In A Coma’. 2000 Transition No. 80. 134/2 Techno, the late-1980s dance genre from black Detroit that eventually sparked the rave scene in Europe. Draft additions March 2012 dance move n. a movement which forms part of a dance, esp. one consisting of a set routine of such movements; frequently in plural; cf. move n. 6a. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > movements or steps > [noun] > movement movement1715 dance move1960 1960 M. V. Owen Fun of Figure Skating vii. 115 The waltz eight, the man's ten-step, the rolls, and the changes of edge, plus the threes you already know, form a broad foundation for building a repertoire of dance moves. 1994 C. Paglia Vamps & Tramps 370 Her eccentric fusion of avant-garde dance moves, disco-funk music, and hip urban waif fashion style. 2002 Adrenalin No. 13. 116/5 Behind them the DJ was shunting his hips and moving his fists beside them in tight circles. It was a dance move I'd previously only seen performed by children's TV presenters: the choo-choo train. 2010 Vanity Fair Feb. 36/1 If any of you youngsters want to try your hand doing Le Freak or the Hustle, two of the seminal dance moves of the period, check out VF.com for our step-by-step instructions. Draft additions June 2001 dance music n. spec. a genre of popular music which is largely or wholly synthesized, has a repetitive beat, few or no lyrics, and frequently incorporates sound samples (cf. sample n.). Π 1987 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 4 Mar. 23 House is mean, pounding dance music... The beat goes boom, boom, boom, boom, with no real melody line and no relief. 1989 Blitz Jan. 34/3 Next year you'll see lots of fast dance music again, garage and house stuff, but this time with big vocals. 1995 J. Miller Voxpop i. 9 I like dance music and rave now, not hardcore, mostly garage and progressive. 2001 Evening Post (Bristol) (Electronic ed.) 25 Jan. Dance music has become very commercial with house tunes, trance anthems and hard house tracks crossing over into the mainstream charts. Draft additions September 2019 dancesport n. competitive ballroom dancing. ΚΠ 1989 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 12 June 10 They competed in the Highland Park Dancesport Classic at the Centre Theatre on the Gold Coast. 2018 V. Chmerkovskiy I'll never change my Name i. 16 My dad, my brother, and I helped in the push to get dancesport into the Olympics. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2022). dancev. Brit. /dɑːns/, /dans/, U.S. /dæns/ Forms: Middle English–1500s daunse, Middle English–1600s daunce, (Middle English dawnce, 1500s dans(s, danse), Middle English– dance. Etymology: < Old French dance-r, danse-r = Provençal dansar, Spanish danzar, Portuguese dançar, dansar, Italian danzare. The origin of the Romanic word is obscure; it is generally held (after Diez) to be an adoption of Old High German dansôn to draw, to stretch out, from which is supposed to have arisen the sense ‘to form a file or chain in dancing’. From Romanic the word has been taken (back) in the sense ‘dance’ into German: Middle High German tanzen (11th cent., Middle Dutch dansen. (Old High German dansôn was a derivative form < dinsan = Gothic þinsan in at-þinsan to draw towards one.) 1. a. intransitive. To leap, skip, hop, or glide with measured steps and rhythmical movements of the body, usually to the accompaniment of music, either by oneself, or with a partner or in a set. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > [verb (intransitive)] frikec1000 sail1297 dancec1300 sault1377 tripc1386 balea1400 hopc1405 foota1425 tracec1425 sallyc1440 to dance a fita1500 fling1528 to tread a measure, a dance1577 trip1578 traverse1584 move1594 to shake heels1595 to shake it1595 firk1596 tripudiate1623 pettitoe1651 step1698 jink1718 to stand up1753 bejig1821 to toe and heel (it)1828 morris1861 hoof1925 terp1945 society > leisure > dancing > [verb (transitive)] leadOE dancec1300 foota1500 move1568 trip1627 morris1844 c1300 K. Alis. 5213 Mery time it is in May..Maydens so dauncen and thay play. 1388 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) 2 Sam. vi. 14 Dauid..daunside with all strengthis bifor the Lord. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 147/3 He..sente them into the gardyn to daunse & to carolle. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 361 After dynner men avaunced them to daunce eche man with eche woman. 1645 J. Milton L'Allegro in Poems 34 Many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the Chequer'd shade. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 466. ⁋3 You shall see her dance, or, if you will do her that Honour, dance with her. 1884 M. E. Braddon Ishmael ix I never danced with any one in my life until to-day. I have danced by myself in the yard sometimes when there was an organ. †b. to dance barefoot: said of an elder sister when a younger one was married before her. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > unmarried person(s) > unmarried woman > [verb (intransitive)] > remain unmarried or be old maid to lead apes in hell1578 to dance barefoota1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) ii. i. 33 She must haue a husband, I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day, And for your loue to her, leade Apes in hell. View more context for this quotation 1742 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 188 The eldest daughter was much disappointed that she should dance barefoot, and desired her father to find out a match for her. c. Of animals taught to perform certain regular movements. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by locomotion > locomotion of animals > [verb (intransitive)] > move about raika1250 rakec1460 dance?1515 ?1515 Hyckescorner (de Worde) sig. C.iii Than sholde ye daunce as a bere. 1854 J. G. Wood Sketches Animal Life 210 The education of most bears seldom aspires beyond teaching the animal to stand on its hind legs, and raise each foot alternately, a performance popularly entitled ‘dancing’. d. transferred and figurative. ΚΠ c1430 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1544) i. viii. 11 a Beware afore or ye daunce in the rowe Of such as Fortune hath from her whele ithrow. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII v. iii. 62 I haue some of 'em in Limbo Patrum, and there they are like to dance these three dayes. View more context for this quotation e. to dance to or after (a person's) pipe, whistle, etc.: figurative to follow his lead, act after his desire or instigation. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > imitate [verb (intransitive)] > follow an example borrow?c1225 to walk in (or tread) a person's stepsa1240 to take example from (also by, at, of)c1405 to dance to or after (a person's) pipe, whistle1546 patrizate1623 patrizizea1642 to follow suit1747 to take a leaf out of a person's book1809 pattern1820 society > authority > subjection > obedience > obey or be obedient to [verb (transitive)] > comply with the will of suea1300 conform1482 to dance to or after (a person's) pipe, whistle1546 morigerate1623 comply1650 correspond1677 supple1741 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. vi. sig. I To daunce after her pipe, I am ny led. 1604 T. Middleton Ant & Nightingale sig. C2^v Till the old deuourer..Death, had made our Landlord daunce after his Pipe. 1707 J. Norris Pract. Treat. Humility iii. 98 When a man..dances to the tune of the age wherein he lives. 1823 W. Scott Peveril I. vi. 161 I thought I had the prettiest girl in the Castle dancing after my whistle. 1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) I. 523 That most of these councillors..will ‘dance to Rome's piping’, if they do but see her gold. 2. a. To leap, skip, spring, or move up and down, with continuously recurring movement, from excitement or strong emotion. Said also of the lively skipping or prancing of animals, and of the heart, the blood in the veins, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > be or become excited [verb (intransitive)] > leap or skip with excitement dancec1400 to jump (also leap) out of one's skin1567 c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 345 Þoȝ þou daunce as any do, Braundysch, & brais þy braþez breme. c1400–50 Alexander 2618 For þe dowt of þe dyn daunced stedis. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. gvi^v Some were constrayned to leape and daunce for ioye. 1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Ei The woman runneth vp and down, daunsing continually like a frantike bodie. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 112 I haue Tremor Cordis on me: my heart daunces, But not for ioy. View more context for this quotation a1720 J. Sheffield Wks. (1753) I. 160 The blood more lively danc'd within our veins. 1792 S. Rogers Pleasures Mem. i. 142 When the heart danced, and life was in its spring. 1819 C. Lamb in Examiner 14 Feb. 109/1 He saw, unseen, the happy girl unfold the Valentine, dance about, clap her hands. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 27 Yniol's heart Danced in his bosom, seeing better days. b. To run, go, or move on with dancing or tripping motion. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > leap, spring, or jump [verb (intransitive)] > caper leapc900 playOE floxec1200 startlec1300 trancec1374 prancec1380 tripc1386 scoupa1400 prankc1450 gambol1508 frisk?1520 jeta1529 pract1568 trounce1568 trip1578 capriole1580 lavolta1590 linch1593 curvet1595 flisk1595 firk1596 caper1598 jaunce1599 risec1599 cabre1600 jaunt1605 skit1611 to cut a caper or capersa1616 tripudiate1623 insult1652 to fike and flinga1689 scamper1691 dance1712 pranklea1717 cavort1794 jinket1823 gambado1827 caracol1861 1712 J. Arbuthnot Law is Bottomless-pit i. x. 19 How you have danc'd the Round of all the Courts. 1820 W. Scott Abbot II. ix. 273 The moments..danced so rapidly away. 1820 W. Scott Abbot III. vii. 224 Some sprightly damsel, who thinks to dance through life as through a French galliard. 1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton ii. 20 These boys of twenty-five will dance over the world's edge in pursuit of a theory. 3. a. Of things inanimate: To bob up and down on the ground, on the surface of water, in the air, etc. Often with personification or figurative reference to gay and sprightly motion. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > move to and fro or up and down [verb (intransitive)] to come and goc1384 babble1440 play1513 popple1555 dance1563 bob1568 dodge1645 waft1650 reciprocate1678 lollop1851 pump1887 piston1930 yo-yo1967 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > move to and fro or up and down [verb (intransitive)] > bob dance1563 boba1794 bobble1812 1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors ii. f. 7^v The flame appeareth to leape or daunce from one parte to the other, much lyke as balls of wylde fyer daunce vp and downe in the water. 1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Fvj Whilst thy ship doth kepe a flote Ydauncinge on the plaine. 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 231 Why the limb of the Sun, Moon, Jupiter..and Venus, appear to move or dance. 1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. viii. 139 Care must be taken that the Bressummers and Girders be not weakned more than needs, least the whole Floor dance. 1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 13 Light as the mote that daunceth in the beam. 1884 Queen Victoria More Leaves 138 The little boat rolled and danced. b. Grimly applied to the movements of the body in or after death by hanging; to dance upon nothing, to be hanged. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > be hanged [verb (intransitive)] rideeOE hangc1000 anhangc1300 wagc1430 totter?1515 to wave in the windc1515 swing1542 trine1567 to look through ——?1570 to preach at Tyburn cross1576 stretch?1576 to stretch a rope1592 truss1592 to look through a hempen window?a1600 gibbet1600 to have the lift1604 to salute Tyburn1640 to dance the Tyburn jig1664 dangle1678 to cut a caper on nothing1708 string1714 twist1725 to wallop in a tow (also tether)1786 to streek in a halter1796 to straight a ropea1800 strap1815 to dance upon nothing1837 to streek a tow1895 1837 J. Richardson Brit. Legion (ed. 2) viii. 210 To see a fellow-being dancing in air after death, in the manner practised in England. 1839 W. H. Ainsworth Jack Sheppard III. iii. xxxi. 292 ‘You'll dance upon nothing, presently’, rejoined Jonathan, brutally. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. viii. iv. 322 This poor soldier, six feet three, your Majesty, is to dance on the top of nothing for a three-halfpenny matter! 4. a. transitive with the name or description of a dance or measure as cognate object. ΚΠ c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (MS. Gg) Prol. 200 Daunsynge aboute this flour an esy pas. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xvi. xix To daunce true mesures without varyaunce. 1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. G4^v They have daunst a Galliard at Beggers bush for it. a1627 T. Middleton Chast Mayd in Cheape-side (1630) iv. 53 As if they'd daunce the Sword-dance on the Stage. 1762 O. Goldsmith Life R. Nash 34 A minuet, danced by two persons. 1844 E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 142 If you could see the little girl dance the Polka with her sister! †b. to dance Barnaby: to dance to a quick movement, move expeditiously. to dance the Tyburn jig: to be hanged: cf. 3b. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > style or manner of dancing > [verb (intransitive)] frisk?1520 hobble1535 caper1598 to cut a caper or capersa1616 to dance Barnaby1664 to dance low1667 jig1672 to fike and flinga1689 shuffle1819 slow-step1909 dingolay1935 touch-dance1972 headbang1977 to funk out1979 to strut one's funky stuff1979 krump2004 the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > proceed rapidly [verb (intransitive)] > act expeditiously to make (it) short1490 dispatch1581 to be brief1609 to claw it off1615 to dance Barnaby1664 society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > be hanged [verb (intransitive)] rideeOE hangc1000 anhangc1300 wagc1430 totter?1515 to wave in the windc1515 swing1542 trine1567 to look through ——?1570 to preach at Tyburn cross1576 stretch?1576 to stretch a rope1592 truss1592 to look through a hempen window?a1600 gibbet1600 to have the lift1604 to salute Tyburn1640 to dance the Tyburn jig1664 dangle1678 to cut a caper on nothing1708 string1714 twist1725 to wallop in a tow (also tether)1786 to streek in a halter1796 to straight a ropea1800 strap1815 to dance upon nothing1837 to streek a tow1895 1664 C. Cotton Scarronides 15 Bounce cries the Port-hole, out they fly And make the World dance Barnaby. 1664 G. Etherege Comical Revenge v. ii. 71 Widow, here is Musique; send for a Parson, And we will dance Barnaby within this Half hour. 1697 J. Vanbrugh Relapse Epil. 106 Did ever one yet dance the Tyburn Jigg With a free air, ar a well pawder'd Wigg? 5. to dance attendance: to wait (upon a person) with assiduous attention and ready obsequiousness; originally to stand waiting or ‘kicking one's heels’ in an antechamber. See also attendance n. 5. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > servility > be servile [verb (intransitive)] > attend in servile manner to dance attendancea1529 a1529 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte (?1545) 626 And Syr ye must daunce attendance, And take patient sufferaunce, For my Lords Grace, Hath now no time or space, To speke with you as yet. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII v. ii. 30 To suffer A man of his Place..To dance attendance on their Lordships pleasures, And at the dore too, like a Post with Packets. View more context for this quotation a1674 T. Traherne Christian Ethicks (1675) 380 Few have observed that the Sun, and Moon, and Stars dance attendance to it [sc. the earth], and cherish it with their Influences. 1768 T. Gray in Let. 29 May in Corr. (1971) III. 1033 Here are a pair of your stray shoes, dancing attendance, till you send for them. 1883 J. Gilmour Among Mongols xxxi. 362 After dancing attendance on the court for a month or two they receive their dismission. 6. causal. a. To lead in a dance, cause to dance. ΚΠ 1665 S. Pepys Diary 11 Oct. (1972) VI. 263 Having danced my people as long as I saw fit to sit up, I to bed. 1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VI. ii. 3 When my father had danced his white bear backwards and forwards through half a dozen pages. 1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer i. 11 Tho' I am obligated to dance a bear, a man may be a gentleman for all that. b. To move or toss up and down with a dancing jerky motion; to dandle. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > move to and fro or up and down [verb (transitive)] > jog or jolt to and fro or up and down > a child on the knee dance1382 dandle1530 trot1853 1382 J. Wyclif Isa. lxvi. 12 Vp on the knes men shul daunte [ MS. H. a1450 daunsen] ȝou. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. x. sig. Liv In hope..In hir dotyng daies to be daunst on the lappe. a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Spanish Curat ii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. E4/1 I have dandled ye, and kist ye and plaid with ye..and danc'd ye. 1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 418 To dance a child in one's arms. 1773 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1988) I. 281 It was no sport to me to be Danced up & down, & to find the Waves..rougher every instant. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam Epil. 205 I that danced her on my knee. View more context for this quotation 7. With complement: To remove, put, bring, impel, etc., off, away, out, in, etc., by dancing. ΚΠ a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 208 So was the blessed head of John..danced off his shoulders by a Harlot. 1787 Generous Attachm. I. 200 I danced away the recollection of it. 1812 Ld. Byron Waltz vii Her nimble feet danced off another's head. 1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire V. l. 557 That an obscure player..should dance himself into the chamber of the empress. 1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians I. iv. 57 Like a lady danced off her sense of fixity. 1894 N.E.D. at Dance Mod. I fear he has danced away his chance. 8. U.S. (now historical). In former North American Indian tradition: to rejoice over by dancing round (a trophy, esp. a captured scalp). ΚΠ 1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians I. 31 After having been formally ‘danced’, as the saying is, (i.e. after it [sc. a scalp] has been stuck up upon a pole..and the warriors have danced around it for two or three weeks at intervals). 1846 R. B. Sage Scenes Rocky Mts. (1859) 126 Rarely did we return empty-handed from the foeman's land—without..scalps to dance. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1300v.c1300
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