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step-dance

step-dance is the alternative form of step dance.

Meaning of step dance

Noun

step dance (plural step dances)

  1. A dance emphasizing the dancer's steps.
    • He then gave us a step-dance, so as not to dwell too long on one subject.1876, John Ruskin, “Letter LXVIII. Notes and Correspondence.”, in Fors Clavigera. Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain, volume VI, Orpington, Kent: George Allen, →OCLC, page 269
  2. A postcopulatory behaviour of whistling ducks, genus Dendrocygna.

See all 3 meanings of step dance

Forms of step-dance

pluralstep-dances

Questions about step-dance

What is step-dance the alternative form of?
Step-dance is the alternative form of step dance.

Words near step-dance in the dictionary

  1. step-countries
  2. step-country
  3. step-cousin
  4. step-cousins
  5. step-dad
  6. step-dance
  7. step-dances
  8. step-daughter
  9. step-daughters
  10. step-down
  11. step-father

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