waltz
/wɒlts/US/wɔlts/
waltz noun: a ballroom dance in 3/4 time.
Noun
waltz (plural waltzes)
- A ballroom dance in 3/4 time.
- Miss Esler and Mr. McMorrow went to Kalgoorlie to adjudicate at the goldfields waltz and quickstep championships, and found the standard of dancing surprisingly high.1938 October 26, The Daily News, Perth, page 11, column 5
- A piece of music for this dance (or in triple time).
- A simple task.
Verb
waltz (third-person singular simple present waltzes, present participle waltzing, simple past and past participle waltzed)
- To dance the waltz (with).
- They waltzed for twenty-one hours and seventeen minutes straight, setting a record.
- While waltzing her around the room, he stepped on her toes only once.
- To move briskly and unhesitatingly, especially in an inappropriately casual manner, or when unannounced or uninvited.
- He waltzed into the room like he owned the place.
- You can't just waltz him in here without documentation!
- To accomplish a task with little effort.
- Don't worry about the interview — you'll waltz it.
- Synonyms:
- breeze through
- To move with fanfare.
- And he said, what he had planned in his head from the start, if we got Jim out all safe, was for us to[…] take him back up home on a steamboat, in style, and pay him for his lost time, and write word ahead and get out all the niggers around, and have them waltz him into town with a torchlight...1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Chapter the last”, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC
Proper noun capitalized: Waltz
Waltz (countable and uncountable, plural Waltzes)
- A surname.
- According to the Atlantic, national security adviser Mike Waltz earlier this month convened a text conversation with top US officials, including Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, to discuss strikes on Houthi militants in Yemen who had been...2025 March 24, Katie Bo Lillis, Kaitlan Collins, Jeff Zeleny, Evan Perez, Oren Liebermann, Jamie Gangel, Kit Maher and Sean Lyngaas, “Trump’s national security adviser added a journalist to text chat...
- A township in Wabash County, Indiana.
- An unincorporated community in Rowan County, Kentucky.
- An unincorporated community in Huron Township, Wayne County, Michigan.
waltz meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
waltz in Hindi
- वाल्ट्ज, वॉल्ट्ज, वॉल्टज़
waltz in Tamil
- சுழல் நடனம், சுழல்நடனம்
waltz in Marathi
- वॉल्ट्ज, वॉल्ट्झ, वॉल्टझ
waltz in Urdu
- والٹز
More languagesFewer languages
- waltz in Bengali
- ওয়াল্টজ, ওয়ালটজ
- waltz in Telugu
- వాల్ట్జ్
- waltz in Malayalam
- വാൾട്ട്സ്, വാൾട്സ്
- waltz in Kannada
- ವಾಲ್ಟ್ಜ್
- waltz in Punjabi
- ਵਾਲਟਜ਼, ਵਾਲਟਜ਼ ਤੱਕ
- waltz in Gujarati
- વોલ્ટ્ઝ, વોલ્ટઝ, વૉલ્ટઝ
- waltz in Odia
- ୱାଲ୍ଟଜ୍, ୱାଲ୍ଟ୍ଜ୍
- waltz in Nepali
- वाल्ट्ज, वाल्टज
- waltz in Arabic
- فَالْس fāls, رَقْصَة الْفَالْس raqṣat al-fāls
- waltz in Persian
- والس vâls
- waltz in Vietnamese
- van, van-xơ
Examples of waltz in a sentence
- How about you?" "Love, I can barely waltz.2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 212:
- Oxlade-Chamberlain, 18, became the youngest English Champions League scorer when he waltzed across the area to plant a low shot into the corner.2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport:
- Telfer’s book waltz right by societal rules that would leave the rest of us at a standstill.2021 February 25, Mara Altman, “Glitzy, Tragic and Selfish: Female Con Artists Waltz by Society’s Rules”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
Synonyms of waltz
Forms of waltz
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | waltzes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | waltzes |
| present participle | waltzing |
| past participle | waltzed |
| past | waltzed |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Waltzes |
Origin of waltz
From German Walzer, from walzen (“to dance”), from Old High German walzan (“to turn”), from Proto-Germanic *walt- (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn”). Doublet of valse. More at *waltaną.
Words formed from waltz
- bridal waltz
- cross-step waltz
- English waltz
- French waltz
- international standard waltz
- slow waltz
- Viennese waltz
- waltzlike
- waltz time
- wedding waltz
Phrases with waltz
Words that rhyme with waltz
Questions about waltz
- What does waltz mean?
- Waltz means a ballroom dance in 3/4 time.
- What is waltz in Hindi?
- Waltz in Hindi is वाल्ट्ज, वॉल्ट्ज, वॉल्टज़. See Waltz meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use waltz in a sentence?
- How about you?" "Love, I can barely waltz.
- What part of speech is waltz?
- Waltz can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce waltz?
- Waltz is pronounced /wɒlts/ (UK).
- What is the plural of waltz?
- The plural of waltz is waltzes.
Words near waltz in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: waltz (page history and authors); Waltz (page history and authors); waltz (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); waltz (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); waltz (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); waltz (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); waltz (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); waltz (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); waltz (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); waltz (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); waltz (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); waltz (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); waltz (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); waltz (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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