CONTRADANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does contradance mean? 

• CONTRADANCE (noun)
  The noun CONTRADANCE has 1 sense:

1. a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line

  Familiarity information: CONTRADANCE used as a noun is very rare.

• CONTRADANCE (verb)
  The verb CONTRADANCE has 1 sense:

1. perform a contradance

  Familiarity information: CONTRADANCE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONTRADANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

contra danse; contradance; contredanse; country-dance; country dancing

Hypernyms ("contradance" is a kind of...):

folk dance; folk dancing (a style of dancing that originated among ordinary people (not in the royal courts))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "contradance"):

longways; longways dance (country dancing performed with couples in two long lines facing each other)

square dance; square dancing (American country dancing in which couples form squares)

do-si-do (a square-dance figure; two dancers approach each other and circle back to back before returning to their original places)

promenade (a square dance figure; couples march counterclockwise in a circle)

sashay (a square dance figure; partners circle each other taking sideways steps)

swing (a square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them)

landler (a moderately slow Austrian country dance in triple time; involves spinning and clapping)

• CONTRADANCE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Perform a contradance

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

contra danse; contradance; contredanse; country-dance

Hypernyms (to "contradance" is one way to...):

dance; trip the light fantastic; trip the light fantastic toe (move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue contradance