ceremonial dance

1. 1.

   a dance that is part of a religious ritual

   Synonymsritual dancingritual dance

   Broaderdancing

   Narrowerapache devil dancedanse macabreghost dancepyrrhicrain dancesnake dancesun dancewar dance

   Part ofritual

Questions about ceremonial dance

What does ceremonial dance mean?

ceremonial dance means "a dance that is part of a religious ritual".

What is another word for ceremonial dance?

Close synonyms include ritual dancing, ritual dance. 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 ceremonial dance a common word?

ceremonial 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.