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View synonyms for barn dance

barn dance

noun

  1. a social gathering, originally held in a barn, and including square dances, round dances, and hoedown music.
  2. any party featuring country dances, dress, music, etc.


barn dance

noun

  1. a progressive round country dance
  2. a party with hoedown music and square-dancing
  3. a party featuring country dancing
  4. a disco or party held in a barn
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of barn dance1

An Americanism dating back to 1890–95
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Example Sentences

The band was playing, slowly, as is the dancing-fashion of the North, that Barn Dance; and almost every girl was in white.

Are you clean daffy, doin' a barn dance around that rusty capstan, makin' a noise fit to frighten the fish?

It was at a country barn dance during these few days that he met Moyra Dolan.

"And women pet them; they'd prefer a fool who can pot rabbits and do a barn-dance to Homer himself," growled Yate.

It was the day that Annixter had chosen for his barn-dance and, in consequence, Quien Sabe was in fete and work suspended.

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