Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com
Synonyms

country-dance

American  
[kuhn-tree-dans, -dahns] / ˈkʌn triˌdæns, -ˌdɑns /

noun

  1. a dance of rural English origin in which the dancers form circles or squares or in which they face each other in two rows.

country dance British  

noun

  1. a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets and perform a series of movements, esp facing one another in a line

"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

Other Word Forms

  • country dancing noun

Etymology

Origin of country-dance

First recorded in 1570–80

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.