country dancing

1. 1.

   a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line

   Synonymscountry-dancecontredansecontra dansecontradance

   Broaderfolk dancing

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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.