WALTZ

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does waltz mean? 

• WALTZ (noun)
  The noun WALTZ has 3 senses:

1. an assured victory (especially in an election)

2. music composed in triple time for waltzing

3. a ballroom dance in triple time with a strong accent on the first beat

  Familiarity information: WALTZ used as a noun is uncommon.

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

1. dance a waltz

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WALTZ (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An assured victory (especially in an election)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

walk-in; waltz

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

triumph; victory (a successful ending of a struggle or contest)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Music composed in triple time for waltzing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

dance music (music to dance to)

Derivation:

waltz (dance a waltz)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A ballroom dance in triple time with a strong accent on the first beat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

valse; waltz

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

ballroom dance; ballroom dancing (any of a variety of social dances performed by couples in a ballroom)

Derivation:

waltz (dance a waltz)

• WALTZ (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they waltz    ... he / she / it waltzes   
Past simple: waltzed   
Past participle: waltzed   
-ing form: waltzing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dance a waltz

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

waltz; waltz around

Hypernyms (to "waltz" 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 waltz

Derivation:

waltz (a ballroom dance in triple time with a strong accent on the first beat)

waltz (music composed in triple time for waltzing)

waltzer (a dancer who waltzes)

 Context examples 

I waltz with the eldest Miss Larkins once again.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If you are very kind, said he, it will be one of the waltzes we danced last night;—let me live them over again.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

"Gee, it's like old times," Jimmy explained to the gang that gave him the laugh as Martin and the blonde whirled away in a waltz.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There was one in the room; Bessie went and opened it, and then asked me to sit down and give her a tune: I played a waltz or two, and she was charmed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The band on the pier is playing a harsh waltz in good time, and further along the quay there is a Salvation Army meeting in a back street.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She leaned her forehead on the cool pane, and stood half hidden by the curtains, never minding that her favorite waltz had begun, till some one touched her, and turning, she saw Laurie, looking penitent, as he said, with his very best bow and his hand out... Please forgive my rudeness, and come and dance with me.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She says I waltz so well!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"An' I don't give a rap. I'm too damned glad to see 'm back. Watch 'm waltz, eh? It's like silk. Who'd blame any girl?"

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Mrs. Weston, capital in her country-dances, was seated, and beginning an irresistible waltz; and Frank Churchill, coming up with most becoming gallantry to Emma, had secured her hand, and led her up to the top.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

But I do waltz (pretty well, too, as it happens), and I take Miss Larkins out.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)