belly dance

Questions about belly dance

What does belly dance mean?

belly dance means "a Middle Eastern dance in which the dancer makes sensuous movements of the hips and abdomen". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for belly dance?

Close synonyms include belly dancing, danse du ventre. 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 belly dance a common word?

belly dance is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.