ballroom dance

1. 1.

   any of a variety of social dances performed by couples in a ballroom

   Synonymsballroom dancing

   Broadersocial dancing

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Questions about ballroom dance

What does ballroom dance mean?

ballroom dance means "any of a variety of social dances performed by couples in a ballroom".

What is another word for ballroom dance?

Close synonyms include ballroom dancing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ballroom dance a common word?

ballroom dance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.