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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024trance1 /træns/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a state of altered consciousness between sleeping and waking, in which a person does not function freely or normally, esp. a state produced by hypnosis:The music was so powerful that it put him into something like a trance.
- a dazed or bewildered condition:He's walking around in a trance and doesn't know what he's doing.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024trance1 (trans, träns),USA pronunciation n., v., tranced, tranc•ing. n. - a half-conscious state, seemingly between sleeping and waking, in which ability to function voluntarily may be suspended.
- a dazed or bewildered condition.
- a state of complete mental absorption or deep musing.
- an unconscious, cataleptic, or hypnotic condition.
- [Spiritualism.]a temporary state in which a medium, with suspension of personal consciousness, is controlled by an intelligence from without and used as a means of communication, as from the dead.
v.t. - to put in a trance; stupefy.
- to entrance;
enrapture.
- Latin trānsīre, equivalent. to trāns- trans- + īre to go
- Middle French transe literally, passage (from life to death), derivative of transir to go across, pass over
- Middle English traunce state of extreme dread, swoon, dazed state 1300–50
tranced•ly (transt′lē, tran′sid lē)USA pronunciation, adv. trance ′like′, adj. trance2 (träns),USA pronunciation n., v., tranced, tranc•ing. [Scot.] n. - a passageway, as a hallway, alley, or the like.
v.i. - to move or walk rapidly or briskly.
Also, transe.- 1325–75; Middle English (verb, verbal); origin, originally uncertain
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: trance /trɑːns/ n - a hypnotic state resembling sleep
- any mental state in which a person is unaware or apparently unaware of the environment, characterized by loss of voluntary movement, rigidity, and lack of sensitivity to external stimuli
- a dazed or stunned state
- a state of ecstasy or mystic absorption so intense as to cause a temporary loss of consciousness at the earthly level
- a state in which a medium, having temporarily lost consciousness, can supposedly be controlled by an intelligence from without as a means of communication with the dead
vb - (transitive) to put into or as into a trance
Etymology: 14th Century: from Old French transe, from transir to faint, pass away, from Latin trānsīre to go over, from trans- + īre to goˈtranceˌlike adj |