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minueting

minueting is the present participle and gerund of minuet.

Meaning of minuet

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

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Questions about minueting

What is minueting the present participle and gerund of?
Minueting is the present participle and gerund of minuet.

Words near minueting in the dictionary

  1. minuend
  2. minuends
  3. minuet
  4. minueted
  5. minuetic
  6. minueting
  7. minuetish
  8. minuetlike
  9. minuets
  10. minuid
  11. minuids

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