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RING DANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ring dance mean? 

RING DANCE (noun)
  The noun RING DANCE has 1 sense:

1. a folk dance; dancers form a circleplay

  Familiarity information: RING DANCE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RING DANCE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A folk dance; dancers form a circle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

ring dance; round dance

Hypernyms ("ring dance" is a kind of...):

folk dance; folk dancing (a style of dancing that originated among ordinary people (not in the royal courts))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ring dance"):

schottische (a German round dance resembling a slow polka)


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