dancing

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, Cockney, Estuary, Jamaica) IPA^(key): /ˈdɑːnsɪŋ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdænsɪŋ/
  • (æ-tensing) IPA^(key): [dɛənsɪŋ], [deənsɪŋ]

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːnsɪŋ, -ænsɪŋ

Noun

dancing (countable and uncountable, plural dancings)

1. The activity of taking part in a dance.
2. (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

• 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

activity of dancing

• Arabic:

  Hijazi Arabic: رَقْص m (ragṣ)

• Chechen: хелхар (xelxar)
• Danish: dans (da) c
• Dutch: dansen (nl) n
• Esperanto: dancado
• Finnish: tanssiminen (fi)
• German: Tanzen (de) n
• Hungarian: tánc (hu)
• Manx: daunsey m, rinkey m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dans (no) m

  Nynorsk: dans m

• Persian: رقص (fa) (raqs), وشتن (fa) (vaštan)
• Swedish: dans (sv) c, dansande (sv) n
• Taos: tòʼóne
• Telugu: నర్తించుట (nartiñcuṭa)
• Wiradjuri: waganha

Verb

dancing

1. present participle and gerund of dance

Dutch

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from dancing; compare Italian, Spanish and French dancing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛn.sɪŋ/

• Audio:

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Noun

dancing m (plural dancings)

1. (dated) dancehall

   Synonyms: danszaal, danshuis

Italian

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from dancing.

Noun

dancing m (invariable)

1. dancehall

Spanish

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from dancing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈdanθin/ [ˈd̪ãn̟.θĩn]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈdansin/ [ˈd̪ãn.sĩn]
• (Spain) Rhymes: -anθin
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -ansin

Noun

dancing m (plural dancings)

1. dancehall