bedance

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verb

To dance around; dance about; dance for; dance in celebration of.

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Meanings

verbbedance (third-person singular simple present bedances, present participle bedancing, simple past and past participle bedanced)

present singular third person bedances · participle present bedancing · participle past bedanced · past bedanced

  1. ambitransitiveTo dance around; dance about; dance for; dance in celebration of.

    The images of the Canon of Changes being installed and their gnomons appended, the sages would "bedance them and bedrum them."

    1996, Danjiang wen li xue yuan. Wai wên yen chiu so, Tamkang review
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    […] and we are not sure that they have not of late years found their way even to France, that soil of all soils the most bedanced by merry lads and lasses.

    1853, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, The Living Age

    Such salutations greet Yayati, especially favored by ViSvaci ..., when he returns to heaven under a shower of flowers, sung and bedanced by groups of Gandharvas and Apsarasas, […]

    1968, Edward Washburn Hopkins, Epic Mythology

Origin

From be- (“around, over, about”) + dance.

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APA

bedance. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bedance

MLA

“bedance.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bedance. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bedance,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bedance.

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