ghost dance
ghost dance noun: one of the dances of the Ghost Dance religion.
Noun (1)
ghost dance (plural ghost dances)
- One of the dances of the Ghost Dance religion.
Proper noun capitalized: Ghost Dance
Ghost Dance
- A 19th-century religious movement, incorporated into numerous Native American belief systems, according to which performing a dance would reunite the living with spirits of the dead and bring prosperity and unity to native peoples.
- It would be difficult to designate the Ghost Dance of the Indians of North America, for instance, as anything but a phenomenon of acculturation; […].1958, Melville J. Herskovits, Acculturation, Peter Smith, page 12
- In the fall of 1890, a new religious fever, “Ghost Dancing,” spread among the Indian tribes pushed to the far edge of the prairies by broken treaties and the advance of the white man. Their religion held that floods would come, destroying, the whites. And then, game would return; dead Indians would...1973 March 4, John Kifner, “The Ghosts Dance Once Again at Wounded Knee”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
Noun (2) capitalized: Ghost Dance
Ghost Dance (plural Ghost Dances)
- Alternative letter-case form of ghost dance.
Forms of ghost dance
| plural | ghost dances |
|---|---|
| plural | Ghost Dances |
Questions about ghost dance
- What does ghost dance mean?
- Ghost dance means one of the dances of the Ghost Dance religion.
- What part of speech is ghost dance?
- Ghost dance can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of ghost dance?
- The plural of ghost dance is ghost dances.
Words near ghost dance in the dictionary
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