"contra dance" meaning in All languages combined

See contra dance on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: contra dances [plural]
Etymology: From French contredanse. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|contredanse}} French contredanse Head templates: {{en-noun}} contra dance (plural contra dances)
  1. (dance) A type of folk dance style in which couples dance in two facing lines of indefinite length. Categories (topical): Dance Translations (dance): kontredans [masculine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-contra_dance-en-noun-oHKkEIsP Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Terms with Polish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 78 22 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 66 34 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 64 36 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 72 28 Topics: dance, dancing, hobbies, lifestyle, sports

Verb [English]

Forms: contra dances [present, singular, third-person], contra dancing [participle, present], contra danced [participle, past], contra danced [past]
Etymology: From French contredanse. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|contredanse}} French contredanse Head templates: {{en-verb}} contra dance (third-person singular simple present contra dances, present participle contra dancing, simple past and past participle contra danced)
  1. To participate in a contra dance.
    Sense id: en-contra_dance-en-verb-NS4nTXzp

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "contredanse"
      },
      "expansion": "French contredanse",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From French contredanse.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "contra dances",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "contra dance (plural contra dances)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Dance",
          "orig": "en:Dance",
          "parents": [
            "Art",
            "Recreation",
            "Culture",
            "Human activity",
            "Society",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "78 22",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "66 34",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "64 36",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "72 28",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Polish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1836, [Catherine Gore], chapter VIII, in Mrs. Armytage; or, Female Domination. […] In Three Volumes, volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 134:",
          "text": "[T]he Duchess, and the dandies, and the member's wife and all the rest of their tribulations, were happily hidden from the view by the towering bouquets of the gold plateau vases at the head of the room. [...] A contra-dance after supper was felt to be a national duty; but behind those fatal vases a plot had already been concocted by the recondites for rewarding their previous self-denial, not by a quadrille, but a galoppe.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A type of folk dance style in which couples dance in two facing lines of indefinite length."
      ],
      "id": "en-contra_dance-en-noun-oHKkEIsP",
      "links": [
        [
          "dance",
          "dance#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "folk dance",
          "folk dance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dance) A type of folk dance style in which couples dance in two facing lines of indefinite length."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "dance",
        "dancing",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "dance",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "kontredans"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "contra dance"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "contredanse"
      },
      "expansion": "French contredanse",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From French contredanse.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "contra dances",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "contra dancing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "contra danced",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "contra danced",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "contra dance (third-person singular simple present contra dances, present participle contra dancing, simple past and past participle contra danced)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To participate in a contra dance."
      ],
      "id": "en-contra_dance-en-verb-NS4nTXzp"
    }
  ],
  "word": "contra dance"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from French",
    "English terms derived from French",
    "English verbs",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Terms with Polish translations"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "contredanse"
      },
      "expansion": "French contredanse",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From French contredanse.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "contra dances",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "contra dance (plural contra dances)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Dance"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1836, [Catherine Gore], chapter VIII, in Mrs. Armytage; or, Female Domination. […] In Three Volumes, volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 134:",
          "text": "[T]he Duchess, and the dandies, and the member's wife and all the rest of their tribulations, were happily hidden from the view by the towering bouquets of the gold plateau vases at the head of the room. [...] A contra-dance after supper was felt to be a national duty; but behind those fatal vases a plot had already been concocted by the recondites for rewarding their previous self-denial, not by a quadrille, but a galoppe.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A type of folk dance style in which couples dance in two facing lines of indefinite length."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "dance",
          "dance#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "folk dance",
          "folk dance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dance) A type of folk dance style in which couples dance in two facing lines of indefinite length."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "dance",
        "dancing",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "dance",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kontredans"
    }
  ],
  "word": "contra dance"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from French",
    "English terms derived from French",
    "English verbs",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Terms with Polish translations"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "contredanse"
      },
      "expansion": "French contredanse",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From French contredanse.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "contra dances",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "contra dancing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "contra danced",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "contra danced",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "contra dance (third-person singular simple present contra dances, present participle contra dancing, simple past and past participle contra danced)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To participate in a contra dance."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "contra dance"
}

Download raw JSONL data for contra dance meaning in All languages combined (3.0kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-09-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-09-20 using wiktextract (af5c55c and 66545a6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.