folk dance

1. 1.

   perform a folk-dance

   Broaderdance

Questions about folk dance

What does folk dance mean?

folk dance means "a style of dancing that originated among ordinary people (not in the royal courts)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for folk dance?

Close synonyms include folk dancing. 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 folk dance a common word?

folk 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.