"dance floor" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: dance floors [plural]
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  1. A large floor, usually made of hardwood, used primarily for dancing. Categories (topical): Dance Synonyms: dance-floor, dancefloor Translations (an area for dancing): صَالَة رَقْص (ṣālat raqṣ) [feminine] (Arabic), 舞池 (wǔchí) (Chinese Mandarin), dansegulv [neuter] (Danish), tantsupõrand (Estonian), dansigólv [neuter] (Faroese), tanssilattia (Finnish), parketti (Finnish), piste de danse [feminine] (French), Tanzfläche [feminine] (German), πίστα (písta) [feminine] (Greek), רְחָבָה (r'ẖavá) [feminine] (Hebrew), táncparkett (Hungarian), dansgólf [neuter] (Icelandic), urlár rince [masculine] (Irish), pista da ballo [feminine] (Italian), ダンスフロア (dansufuroa) (Japanese), papa kanikani (Maori), dansegulv [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), dansegolv [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), dansegolv [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), صحنه رقص (sahne-ye raqs) (Persian), parkiet taneczny [masculine] (Polish), parkiet [masculine] (Polish), pista de dança [feminine] (Portuguese), ring de dans (Romanian), танцплоща́дка (tancploščádka) [feminine] (Russian), танцева́льная площа́дка (tanceválʹnaja ploščádka) [feminine] (Russian), танцпол (tancpol) [masculine] (Russian), подијум за плес [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), подијум за игру [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), podijum za ples [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), podijum za igru [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), pista de baile [feminine] (Spanish), dansgolv [neuter] (Swedish), dans pisti (Turkish), رقص گاہ (raqs gaah) (Urdu)

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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tancploščádka",
      "sense": "an area for dancing",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "танцплоща́дка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tanceválʹnaja ploščádka",
      "sense": "an area for dancing",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "танцева́льная площа́дка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tancpol",
      "sense": "an area for dancing",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "танцпол"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "an area for dancing",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "подијум за плес"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "an area for dancing",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "подијум за игру"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "an area for dancing",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "podijum za ples"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "an area for dancing",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "podijum za igru"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "an area for dancing",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pista de baile"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "an area for dancing",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "dansgolv"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "an area for dancing",
      "word": "dans pisti"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "raqs gaah",
      "sense": "an area for dancing",
      "word": "رقص گاہ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dance floor"
}

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