country-dance

1. 1.

   perform a contradance

   Synonymscontradancecontredansecontra danse

   Broaderdance

Questions about country-dance

What does country-dance mean?

country-dance means "a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in country-dance?

country-dance has 3 syllables and divides as coun-try--dance under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for country-dance?

Close synonyms include country dancing, contredanse, contra danse, contradance, contradance. 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 country-dance a common word?

country-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.