LONGWAYS DANCE
Dictionary entry overview: What does longways dance mean? • LONGWAYS DANCE (noun)
The noun LONGWAYS DANCE has 1 sense:
1. country dancing performed with couples in two long lines facing each other
Familiarity information: LONGWAYS DANCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• LONGWAYS DANCE (noun)
Meaning:
Country dancing performed with couples in two long lines facing each other
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
longways; longways dance
Hypernyms ("longways dance" is a kind of...):
contra danse; contradance; contredanse; country dancing; country-dance (a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "longways dance"):
reel; Virginia reel (an American country dance which starts with the couples facing each other in two lines)
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