LONGWAYS DANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does longways dance mean? 

• LONGWAYS DANCE (noun)
  The noun LONGWAYS DANCE has 1 sense:

1. country dancing performed with couples in two long lines facing each other

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LONGWAYS DANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Country dancing performed with couples in two long lines facing each other

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

longways; longways dance

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

contra danse; contradance; contredanse; country-dance; country dancing (a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line)

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

reel; Virginia reel (an American country dance which starts with the couples facing each other in two lines)