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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

The minuet being voted slow, a country-dance quickly succeeded it.

From The Missing Ship The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley by Kingston, William Henry Giles

This country-dance was danced in the picture gallery.

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

I can vouch for old Tom and Miss Croply leading off a country-dance the same evening in Prior Cottage; but it is two-and-twenty years ago.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 453 Volume 18, New Series, September 4, 1852 by Chambers, Robert

An account of the country-dance, with the names of some of the old dance-tunes, has been given above.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various