flamenco
/fləˈmɛŋkəʊ/
flamenco noun: a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, in Spain.
Noun
flamenco (countable and uncountable, plural flamencos)
- A genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, in Spain.
- It's impossible to tell the story of flamenco without talking about Lorca, who found in it a source of inspiration in a lifelong political-cultural-sexual struggle against bourgeois philistinism.2010 February 5, Mike Marqusee, “Flamenco's humane roots”, in The Guardian
- Among the dancers, who joined in periodically, the outlier wasn’t the Spanish flamenco dancer, Jesús Carmona (in town for the Flamenco Festival at City Center), so much as the New York salsero, Eddie Torres Jr.2018 March 5, Brian Seibert, “Review: Tapping Out Some New World Rhythms”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2020
- A song or dance performed in such a style.
- La Niña was so goddam terrific that after a month of singing with the vocal trio, she was singing solo and she was dancing a flamenco better'n a gypsy fireball!1977, Tennessee Williams, Vieux Carré, I.3
Verb
flamenco (third-person singular simple present flamencos, present participle flamencoing, simple past and past participle flamencoed)
- To dance flamenco.
- "Can you flamenco?" "If I have to. How about you?" "Love, I can barely waltz. Jive a bit if I'm pissed enough."2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 212
- Behind them on horseback sat six men, two with guitars, one with a trumpet, and three women also on horses: Nadia, an older woman, and the girl Gus had flamencoed with.2011, Yvonne Harris, A River to Cross, Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House Publishers, →ISBN, page 129
flamenco meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Arabic
flamenco in Hindi
- a song or a dance in such a style
- फ़्लामेंको flāmẽko
flamenco in Marathi
- a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain
- फ्लामेंको phlāmeṅko
- a song or a dance in such a style
- फ्लामेंको phlāmeṅko
flamenco in Urdu
- a song or a dance in such a style
- فلامینکو flāmeṅko
flamenco in Arabic
- a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain
- فَلَامِنْكُو falāminkū
- a song or a dance in such a style
- فَلَامِنْكُو falāminkū
More languagesFewer languages
- flamenco in Indonesian
- Flamenco
- flamenco in Vietnamese
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Examples of flamenco in a sentence
- There’s no denying that flamenco guitar with its machine-gun speed picking riffs and dizzying helicopter-like ‘rasgueo’ hand strums is physically punishing.
- But passages of traditionalist flamenco, with Mr.
- The jaleo is a necessary and intricate component of flamenco.
Forms of flamenco
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | flamencos |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | flamencos |
| present participle | flamencoing |
| past participle | flamencoed |
| past | flamencoed |
Origin of flamenco
Borrowed from Spanish flamenco, from Middle Dutch vlaminc (“Fleming”) (> Dutch Vlaming).
Words formed from flamenco
Phrases with flamenco
Questions about flamenco
- What does flamenco mean?
- Flamenco means a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, in Spain.
- What is flamenco in Hindi?
- Flamenco in Hindi is फ़्लामेंको (flāmẽko). See Flamenco meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is flamenco?
- Flamenco can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce flamenco?
- Flamenco is pronounced /fləˈmɛŋkəʊ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of flamenco?
- The plural of flamenco is flamencos.
Words near flamenco in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: flamenco (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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