PAS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pas mean? 

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

1. (ballet) a step in dancing (especially in classical ballet)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(ballet) a step in dancing (especially in classical ballet)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

step (the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down)

Domain category:

ballet; concert dance (a theatrical representation of a story that is performed to music by trained dancers)

 Context examples 

Est-ce que je ne puis pas prendrie une seule de ces fleurs magnifiques, mademoiselle?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

J'ai dit qu'oui: car c'est vrai, n'est-ce pas, mademoiselle?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Monsieur a parle de vous: il m'a demande le nom de ma gouvernante, et si elle n'etait pas une petite personne, assez mince et un peu pale.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Mais oui, mademoiselle: voila cinq ou six heures que nous n'avons pas mange.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

And spreading out her dress, she chasseed across the room till, having reached Mr. Rochester, she wheeled lightly round before him on tip-toe, then dropped on one knee at his feet, exclaiming—"Monsieur, je vous remercie mille fois de votre bonte;" then rising, she added, "C'est comme cela que maman faisait, n'est-ce pas, monsieur?"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

As he took the cup from my hand, Adele, thinking the moment propitious for making a request in my favour, cried out—N'est-ce pas, monsieur, qu'il y a un cadeau pour Mademoiselle Eyre dans votre petit coffre?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Whereupon I told her not to mind his badinage; and she, on her part, evinced a fund of genuine French scepticism: denominating Mr. Rochester un vrai menteur, and assuring him that she made no account whatever of his contes de fee, and that du reste, il n'y avait pas de fees, et quand meme il y en avait: she was sure they would never appear to him, nor ever give him rings, or offer to live with him in the moon.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)