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bedance

bedance verb: to dance around; dance about; dance for; dance in celebration of.

Verb

bedance (third-person singular simple present bedances, present participle bedancing, simple past and past participle bedanced)

  1. (ambitransitive) To dance around; dance about; dance for; dance in celebration of.
    • […] and we are not sure that they have not of late years found their way even to France, that soil of all soils the most bedanced by merry lads and lasses.1853, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, The Living Age
    • Such salutations greet Yayati, especially favored by ViSvaci ..., when he returns to heaven under a shower of flowers, sung and bedanced by groups of Gandharvas and Apsarasas, […]1968, Edward Washburn Hopkins, Epic Mythology

Forms of bedance

third-person singular presentbedances
present participlebedancing
past participlebedanced
pastbedanced

Origin of bedance

From be- (“around, over, about”) + dance.

Questions about bedance

What does bedance mean?
Bedance means to dance around; dance about; dance for; dance in celebration of.
What part of speech is bedance?
Bedance is a verb.
What is the past tense of bedance?
The past tense of bedance is bedanced.

Words near bedance in the dictionary

  1. bedamp
  2. bedamped
  3. bedamping
  4. bedamps
  5. bedan
  6. bedance
  7. bedanced
  8. bedances
  9. bedancing
  10. bedangle
  11. bedans

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