ghost dance

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   a religious dance of Native Americans looking for communication with the dead

   Broaderritual dancing

Questions about ghost dance

What does ghost dance mean?

ghost dance means "a religious dance of Native Americans looking for communication with the dead".

Is ghost dance a common word?

ghost 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.