country dancing

Questions about country dancing

What does country dancing mean?

country dancing means "a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line".

What is another word for country dancing?

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

country dancing 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.