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dance-card

UK/ˈdɑːnskɑːd/US/ˈdænsˌkɑɹd/

dance-card is the alternative form of dance card.

Meaning of dance card

Noun

dance card (plural dance cards)

  1. (figuratively) An appointment schedule.
    • My dance card is full this week. What about meeting next week?
  2. (figuratively) A list of items.
    • [Quentin] Tarantino went on: "I never follow the normal dance card that the genre or the subgenres I deal in usually play by. […] I want it to become something bigger and more expansive than that given subgenre."2009 August 21, “‘Inglourious Basterds’ director Quentin Tarantino picks his favorite WWII movies”, in Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.: Northwest Publications, published 13 November 2015, →ISSN...
  3. (dated) A card on which a person (usually a woman) lists those with whom they have agreed to dance.
    • How could your dance card be full already, Martha? You just got here.

Forms of dance-card

pluraldance-cards

Questions about dance-card

What is dance-card the alternative form of?
Dance-card is the alternative form of dance card.
How do you pronounce dance-card?
Dance-card is pronounced /ˈdɑːnskɑːd/ (UK).

Words near dance-card in the dictionary

  1. dance with the one what brung you
  2. dance with the one who brought ya
  3. dance with the one who brought you
  4. dance with the one who brung ya
  5. dance with the one who brung you
  6. dance-card
  7. dance-cards
  8. dance-drama
  9. dance-dramas
  10. dance-goer
  11. dance-goers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dance-card (page history and authors); dance card (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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