Usually means: Elegant dance in triple time.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word minuet:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. minuet: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. minuet: Merriam-Webster
  3. minuet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. minuet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. minuet: Collins English Dictionary
  6. minuet: Vocabulary.com
  7. Minuet, minuet: Wordnik
  8. minuet: Wiktionary
  9. minuet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. minuet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. minuet: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Minuet, minuet: Dictionary.com
  13. minuet: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Minuet (cat), Minuet (disambiguation), Minuet (film), Minuet (web browser), Minuet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Minuet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. minuet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. minuet: Rhymezone
  18. Minuet: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. minuet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. minuet: FreeDictionary.org
  21. minuet: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. minuet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. minuet: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. minuet: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Dance (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Minuet: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. MINUET: CCI Computer
  3. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  4. minuet: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. MINUET: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. minuet: The Folk File
  2. minuet: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See minueting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A slow graceful dance consisting of a coupé, a high step, and a balance.
noun:  (music) A tune or air to regulate the movements of the minuet dance: it has the dance form, and is commonly in 3/4, sometimes 3/8, measure.
noun:  (music) A complete short musical composition inspired by and conforming to many formal characteristics of the traditional musical accompaniment to the dance of same name.
noun:  (music) A movement which is part of a longer musical composition such as a suite, sonata, or symphony which is inspired by and conforming to formal characteristics of the dance of same name.
verb:  To dance a minuet.

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