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• country-dance
  country-dance

  noun

  a dance of rural English origin in which the dancers form circles or squares or in which they face each other in two rows.
• country dance
  country dance

  noun

  a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets and perform a series of movements, esp facing one another in a line

country-dance

American  

[kuhn-tree-dans, -dahns] / ˈkʌn triˌdæns, -ˌdɑns /

noun

1. a dance of rural English origin in which the dancers form circles or squares or in which they face each other in two rows.

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country dance British  

noun

1. a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets and perform a series of movements, esp facing one another in a line

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Other Word Forms

• country dancing
  noun

Etymology

Origin of country-dance

First recorded in 1570–80

Example Sentences

Courses are as varied as English country-dance, the presidency and genealogy on the computer.

From Time Magazine Archive

About one hundred couple stood up in each country-dance, but the rooms are so large and so judiciously lighted, that we did not feel at all warm.

From Life in Mexico by Calderón de la Barca, Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis)

This country-dance was danced in the picture gallery.

From Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2 by Tytler, Sarah

You are thrown on your back immediately; the conversation is stopt like a country-dance by those who do not know the figure.

From Conversation What to Say and How to Say it by Conklin, Mary Greer

The country-dance occupied the whole length of the room; and round the walls were disposed tables for whist or loo, where the elders amused themselves with as much pleasure, and not less noise.

From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Lever, Charles James