waltz
English edit
Etymology edit
From German Walzer, from walzen (“to dance”), from Old High German walzan (“to turn”), from Proto-Germanic *walt- (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to turn”). Doublet of valse. More at *waltaną.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) enPR: wŏlts, wôlts; IPA(key): /wɒlts/, /wɔːlts/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US) enPR: wôlts, IPA(key): /wɔlts/
- (cot–caught merger) enPR: wälts, IPA(key): /wɑlts/
- Rhymes: -ɔːlts, -ɒlts
Noun edit
waltz (plural waltzes)
- A ballroom dance in 3/4 time.
- 1938 October 26, The Daily News, Perth, page 11, column 5:
- Miss Esler and Mr. McMorrow went to Kalgoorlie to adjudicate at the goldfields waltz and quickstep championships, and found the standard of dancing surprisingly high.
- A piece of music for this dance (or in triple time).
- (informal) A simple task.
Derived terms edit
- bridal waltz
- cross-step waltz
- English waltz
- French waltz
- international standard waltz
- slow waltz
- Viennese waltz
- wedding waltz
Translations edit
a ballroom dance
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piece of music
Verb edit
waltz (third-person singular simple present waltzes, present participle waltzing, simple past and past participle waltzed)
- (intransitive, transitive) To dance the waltz (with).
- They waltzed for twenty-one hours and seventeen minutes straight, setting a record.
- While waltzing her around the room, he stepped on her toes only once.
- 2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 212:
- "Can you flamenco?" "If I have to. How about you?" "Love, I can barely waltz. Jive a bit if I'm pissed enough."
- (intransitive, transitive, usually with in, into, around, etc.) To move briskly and unhesitatingly, especially in an inappropriately casual manner, or when unannounced or uninvited.
- He waltzed into the room like he owned the place.
- You can't just waltz him in here without documentation!
- 2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- Oxlade-Chamberlain, 18, became the youngest English Champions League scorer when he waltzed across the area to plant a low shot into the corner.
- (informal) To accomplish a task with little effort.
- Don't worry about the interview — you'll waltz it.
- (transitive) To move with fanfare.
- 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Chapter the last”, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
- And he said, what he had planned in his head from the start, if we got Jim out all safe, was for us to […] take him back up home on a steamboat, in style, and pay him for his lost time, and write word ahead and get out all the niggers around, and have them waltz him into town with a torchlight procession and a brass-band, and then he would be a hero, and so would we.
Translations edit
dance
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Noun edit
waltz m inan
- waltz (dance)