different between ballad vs waltz

English

Etymology

From French ballade, from Old Occitan ballada (“poem for a dance”), from Late Latin ballare. Doublet of ballade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bæl?d/

Noun

ballad (plural ballads)

1. A kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; especially, a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas.

2. A slow romantic song.

Derived terms

• murder ballad
• power ballad

Translations

Verb

ballad (third-person singular simple present ballads, present participle ballading, simple past and past participle balladed)

1. (obsolete) To make mention of in ballads.
2. (intransitive) To compose or sing ballads.

English

Etymology

From German Walzer, from walzen (“to dance”), from Old High German walzan (“to turn”), from Proto-Germanic *walt- (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to turn”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: wôlts, IPA^(key): /w??lts/
• (cot–caught merger) enPR: w?lts, IPA^(key): /w?lts/
• (cot–caught merger, father-bother merger) enPR: wälts, IPA^(key): /w?lts/

Noun

waltz (plural waltzes)

1. A ballroom dance in 3/4 time.
2. A piece of music for this dance (or in triple time).
3. (informal) A simple task.

Derived terms

• cross-step waltz
• English waltz
• French waltz
• international standard waltz
• slow waltz
• Viennese waltz

Translations

Verb

waltz (third-person singular simple present waltzes, present participle waltzing, simple past and past participle waltzed)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To dance the waltz (with).

2. (intransitive, transitive, usually with in, into, around, etc.) To move briskly and unhesitatingly, especially in an inappropriately casual manner, or when unannounced or uninvited.
3. (informal) To accomplish a task with little effort.

4. (transitive) To move with fanfare.
   • 1884, Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter the Last:

     And he said, what he had planned in his head from the start, if we got Jim out all safe, was for us to […] take him back up home on a steamboat, in style, and pay him for his lost time, and write word ahead and get out all the niggers around, and have them waltz him into town with a torchlight procession and a brass-band, and then he would be a hero, and so would we.

Translations

Related terms

• waltzer
• waltz Matilda

Czech

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?valt?s]

Noun

waltz m

1. waltz (dance)

Related terms

• val?ík

Further reading

• waltz in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• waltz in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989