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minuet

minuet noun: a slow graceful dance consisting of a coupé, a high step, and a balance.

Noun

minuet (plural minuets)

  1. A slow graceful dance consisting of a coupé, a high step, and a balance.
  2. A tune or air to regulate the movements of the minuet dance: it has the dance form, and is commonly in 3/4, sometimes 3/8, measure.
  3. A complete short musical composition inspired by and conforming to many formal characteristics of the traditional musical accompaniment to the dance of same name.
  4. A movement which is part of a longer musical composition such as a suite, sonata, or symphony which is inspired by and conforming to formal characteristics of the dance of same name.

Verb

minuet (third-person singular simple present minuets, present participle minueting, simple past and past participle minueted)

  1. To dance a minuet.
    • After he had raved his time upon the stage, the ladies and knights again minueted for an hour, and again gave place.1838, William Samuel Waithman Ruschenberger, A Voyage Round the World, page 318
    • Within the same circle with the pigeons, were beautiful albatrosses, poising and minueting with them in the most pleasing fellowship.1840, “An Officer of the U. S. Navy,”, in Around the World: A Narrative of a Voyage in the East India Squadron, Under Commodore George C. Read, page 163

minuet meaning in Bengali and Tagalog

minuet in Bengali

একটি ধীর, মার্জিত নৃত্যের সঙ্গীত

minuet in Tagalog

dance
minwe
music accompanying the dance
minwe

Forms of minuet

Noun
pluralminuets
Verb
third-person singular presentminuets
present participleminueting
past participleminueted
pastminueted

Origin of minuet

From French menuet, from menu (“small”) + -et (“diminutive”), from Latin minutus (“very small”).

Words formed from minuet

Words that rhyme with minuet

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Questions about minuet

What does minuet mean?
Minuet means a slow graceful dance consisting of a coupé, a high step, and a balance.
What is minuet in Bengali?
Minuet in Bengali is একটি ধীর, মার্জিত নৃত্যের সঙ্গীত. See Minuet meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is minuet?
Minuet can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of minuet?
The plural of minuet is minuets.

Words near minuet in the dictionary

  1. Mintzes
  2. minuano
  3. Minucci
  4. minuend
  5. minuends
  6. minuet
  7. minueted
  8. minuetic
  9. minueting
  10. minuetish
  11. minuetlike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: minuet (page history and authors); minuet (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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