Usually means: Rhythmic movement to music expression.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word dance:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. dance: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dance: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dance: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dance, dance, the-dance: Wordnik
  7. dance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Dance, dance: Wiktionary
  9. dance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dance: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dance, dance, the dance: Dictionary.com
  13. dance: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dance: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. D.A.N.C.E, Dance (A$$), Dance (Alexandra Stan song), Dance (Ass), Dance (Disco Heat), Dance (Gary Numan album), Dance (Keller Williams album), Dance (Lollipop F album), Dance (Matisse), Dance (New Girl), Dance (Paul Motian album), Dance (Pt. Dance+++(Pt.+++1)), Dance (Pure Prairie League album), Dance (Ratt song), Dance (Rick Astley song), Dance (While The Music Still Goes On), Dance (With U), Dance (disambiguation), Dance (surname), Dance, The Dance (Dave Koz album), The Dance (EP), The Dance (Faithless album), The Dance (Fleetwood Mac album), The Dance (Garth Brooks song), The Dance (album), The Dance (painting), The Dance (second version), The Dance (song), The Dance, The dance, .dance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. dance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. Dance, Dance: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  18. dance: Free Dictionary
  19. Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. dance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. dance: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. dance: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. dance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  24. Dance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  25. dance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  26. dance: Rhymezone

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Dance: Dictionary of Symbolism
  3. dance: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dance: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. dance: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. DANCE: Acronym Finder
  3. dance: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dance: Easton Bible
  2. Dance, Dance: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DANCE: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. dance, dance, dance, dance: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. dance: The Folk File
  3. The Dance: Urban Dictionary
  4. Dance: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dance: Backgammon

(Note: See danceable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction.
noun:  A social gathering where dancing is the main activity.
noun:  (uncountable) The art, profession, and study of dancing.
noun:  (uncountable) A genre of modern music characterised by sampled beats, repetitive rhythms and few lyrics.
noun:  A piece of music with a particular dance rhythm.
noun:  (figurative) A battle of wits, especially one commonly fought between two rivals.
noun:  (figurative, dated) Any strenuous or difficult movement, action, or task.
noun:  (apiology) A repetitive movement used in communication between worker honey bees.
verb:  (intransitive) To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music.
verb:  (intransitive) To leap or move lightly and rapidly.
verb:  (transitive) To perform the steps to.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about.
verb:  (figurative, euphemistic) To make love or have sex.
verb:  (apiology, of a worker honey bee) To make a repetitive movement in order to communicate to other worker honey bees.
verb:  (figurative, euphemistic) To kick and convulse from the effects of being hanged.
noun:  (heraldry) A normally horizontal stripe called a fess that has been modified to zig-zag across the center of a coat of arms from dexter to sinister.
noun:  A surname.

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