Word.ws English Dictionary

last dances

last dances is the plural of last dance.

Meaning of last dance

Noun

last dance (plural last dances)

  1. (figuratively, informal) A last run, suggesting a sense of nostalgia.
    • That movie will be his last dance .
  2. (figuratively, informal) A final romantic date or time together.
  3. (figuratively, informal) The last game or tournament in which a team or the members of a team play or compete together before retirement or moving to another team.
  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see last, dance. A final performance, or a final act.

Questions about last dances

What is last dances the plural of?
Last dances is the plural of last dance.

Words near last dances in the dictionary

  1. last chance saloon
  2. last chicken in the shop
  3. last common ancestor
  4. last common ancestors
  5. last dance
  6. last dances
  7. last day
  8. last ditch
  9. last eight
  10. last eights
  11. last four

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: last dances (page history and authors); last dance (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “last dances.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/last_dances. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.