"dancing" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈdɑːnsɪŋ/ [UK, US], /ˈdænsɪŋ/ [UK, US] Audio: en-us-dancing.ogg [US] Forms: dancings [plural]
Rhymes: -ɑːnsɪŋ, -ænsɪŋ Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} dancing (countable and uncountable, plural dancings)
  1. The activity of taking part in a dance. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (activity of dancing): رَقْص (ragṣ) [Hijazi-Arabic, masculine] (Arabic), хелхар (xelxar) (Chechen), dans [common-gender] (Danish), dansen [neuter] (Dutch), dancado (Esperanto), tanssiminen (Finnish), Tanzen [neuter] (German), tánc (Hungarian), daunsey [masculine] (Manx), rinkey [masculine] (Manx), dans [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), dans [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), رقص (raqs) (Persian), وشتن (vaštan) (Persian), dans [common-gender] (Swedish), dansande [neuter] (Swedish), tòʼóne (Taos), నర్తించుట (nartiñcuṭa) (Telugu), waganha (Wiradjuri)
    Sense id: en-dancing-en-noun-otZ7KwKq Disambiguation of 'activity of dancing': 100 0
  2. (historical) A dance club in France. Tags: countable, historical, uncountable
    Sense id: en-dancing-en-noun-QaQA8esr
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Verb

IPA: /ˈdɑːnsɪŋ/ [UK, US], /ˈdænsɪŋ/ [UK, US] Audio: en-us-dancing.ogg [US]
Rhymes: -ɑːnsɪŋ, -ænsɪŋ Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} dancing
  1. present participle and gerund of dance Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: dance
    Sense id: en-dancing-en-verb-IPvGRxgG Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 43 1 56

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      "ipa": "/ˈdɑːnsɪŋ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdænsɪŋ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɑːnsɪŋ"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ænsɪŋ"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-dancing.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/14/En-us-dancing.ogg/En-us-dancing.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/En-us-dancing.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dancing"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.

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