noun
any of a variety of social dances performed by couples in a ballroom
• Syn: ↑ballroom dancing
• Hypernyms: ↑social dancing
• Hyponyms:
↑beguine, ↑carioca, ↑cha-cha, ↑cha-cha-cha, ↑one-step, ↑fox-trot, ↑foxtrot, ↑two-step, ↑bunny hug, ↑Charleston, ↑conga, ↑cotillion, ↑cotilion, ↑minuet, ↑paso doble, ↑quickstep, ↑rumba, ↑rhumba, ↑samba, ↑round dance, ↑round dancing, ↑tango, ↑waltz, ↑valse
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noun also ballroom : a social dance adapted to the modern ballroom and including couple dances in embrace position (as the fox trot, tango, two-step, waltz), face-to-face jazz dances (as the charleston), and certain folk dances (as the czardas, mazurka, polka, schottische) done usually for recreation and sometimes for exhibition
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any of a variety of social or recreational dances performed by couples, as in a ballroom.
[1890-95]
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ballroom dance noun, pl ⋯ dances [count]
The waltz is a kind of ballroom dance.
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Main Entry: ↑ballroom dancing
Useful english dictionary. 2012.