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sun dance

sun dance is the alternative form of sundance.

Meaning of sundance

Noun

sundance (plural sundances)

  1. Any of various Native American religious rituals with songs, dances, praying, etc.
    • Of course before this there will be lesser fights with Indian foes and whites, and much village life, moving, sundances and other ceremonials to record and a great hunt on the Yellowstone […]1992, Mari Sandoz, Helen Winter Stauffer, Letters of Mari Sandoz, page 340
  2. Gaillardia pulchella, a flowering plant of the Southern United States, from Arizona to Florida, and northern Mexico.

See all 6 meanings of sundance

Forms of sun dance

pluralsun dances

Questions about sun dance

What is sun dance the alternative form of?
Sun dance is the alternative form of sundance.

Words near sun dance in the dictionary

  1. sun creams
  2. sun cross
  3. sun crosses
  4. sun cure
  5. sun cures
  6. sun dance
  7. sun dances
  8. sun deck
  9. sun decks
  10. sun deities
  11. sun deity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sun dance (page history and authors); sundance (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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