Usually means: Slow dance of Caribbean origin.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word beguine:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. beguine: Merriam-Webster
  2. beguine, beguine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Beguine, beguine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. beguine: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Beguine, beguine: Vocabulary.com
  6. Beguine, beguine: Wordnik
  7. Beguine, beguine: Wiktionary
  8. beguine: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Beguine, beguine: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. beguine: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Beguine, beguine: Dictionary.com
  12. Beguine: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Beguine (dance), Beguine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Beguine: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. beguine: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. beguine: Rhymezone
  17. Beguine: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. beguine: FreeDictionary.org
  19. beguine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Beguine: The Word Detective
  21. Beguine: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dance (No longer online)

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  1. beguine: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Beguine)

noun:  A ballroom dance, similar to a slow rumba, originally from French West Indies and popularized abroad largely through the song "Begin the Beguine"; the music for the dance.
noun:  (historical) A member of a semimonastic Christian lay religious order active in Northern Europe, particularly in the Low Countries in the 13th–16th centuries.

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