dancing
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Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dancing (countable and uncountable, plural dancings)
- The activity of taking part in a dance.
- (historical) A dance club in France.
- 2001, William A. Shack, Harlem in Montmartre: A Paris Jazz Story Between the Great Wars:
- New dancings pervaded the length and breadth of Montmartre in order to suit the taste of foreign patrons.
- 2003, Jeffrey H. Jackson, Making Jazz French: Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris, page 44:
- Different dancings also attracted different crowds. Indeed, the diversity of dancers throughout the city makes drawing a detailed portrait of them difficult.
Derived terms edit
- ballroom dancing
- barn dancing
- belly dancing
- break dancing
- break-dancing
- breakdancing
- Cotswold morris dancing
- country dancing
- dad dancing
- dad-dancing
- dancing bologna
- dancing girl
- dancing master's kit
- devil dancing
- dirty dancing
- disco dancing
- folk dancing
- grave dancing
- Highland dancing
- horizontal dancing
- ice dancing
- Irish step dancing
- line dancing
- morris dancing
- pole dancing
- skirt dancing
- slam dancing
- square dancing
- swing dancing
- table dancing
- tap dancing
- tap-dancing
Translations edit
activity of dancing
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Verb edit
dancing
- present participle and gerund of dance
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Etymology edit
Pseudo-anglicism, derived from dancing; compare Italian, Spanish and French dancing.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dancing m (plural dancings)
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Pseudo-anglicism, derived from dancing.
Noun edit
dancing m (invariable)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Pseudo-anglicism, derived from dancing.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈdanθin/ [ˈd̪ãn̟.θĩn]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈdansin/ [ˈd̪ãn.sĩn]
- (Spain) Rhymes: -anθin
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -ansin
Noun edit
dancing m (plural dancings)