Meanings
plural dancings
- countableuncountableThe activity of taking part in a dance.
- countablehistoricaluncountableA dance club in France.
New dancings pervaded the length and breadth of Montmartre in order to suit the taste of foreign patrons.
2001, William Alfred Shack, Harlem in Montmartre: A Paris Jazz Story Between the Great Wars, →ISBN, page 561 more example
Different dancings also attracted different crowds. Indeed, the diversity of dancers throughout the city makes drawing a detailed portrait of them difficult.
2003, Jeffrey H. Jackson, Making Jazz French: Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris, →ISBN, page 44
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of dance
comparative more dancing · superlative most dancing
- That dances
Synonyms & antonyms
nountaking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Danish dans
- dansactivity of dancing
Dutch dansen
- dansenactivity of dancing
Esperanto dancado
- dancadoactivity of dancing
Finnish tanssiminen
- tanssiminenactivity of dancing
German Tanzen
- Tanzenactivity of dancing
Hungarian tánc
- táncactivity of dancing
Norwegian Bokmål dans
- dansactivity of dancing
Persian رقص, وشتن
- رقص (raqs)activity of dancing
- وشتن (vaštan)activity of dancing
Polish tańczenie, taniec
- tańczenieactivity of dancing
- taniecactivity of dancing
Swedish dans, dansande
- dansactivity of dancing
- dansandeactivity of dancing
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with dancing
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dancing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dancing
“dancing.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dancing. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dancing,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dancing.
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