different between dance vs frolic

English

Alternative forms

• daunce (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English dauncen, daunsen, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman dauncer, dancer (“to dance”) (compare Old French dancier), from Frankish *þans?n (“to draw, pull, stretch out, gesture”) (compare Old High German dans?n (“to draw, pull”)), from Proto-West Germanic *þans?n, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tens- (“to stretch, pull”). Replaced Old English sealtian (“to dance”) borrowed from Latin salt?re (“to leap, dance”). More at thin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dæns/
  • (æ-tensing) IPA^(key): [d??ns], [de?ns]
  • (Northern England, Ireland) IPA^(key): [dæns], [dans], [däns]
  • (General Australian) IPA^(key): [dæ?ns], IPA^(key): [d??ns]
• IPA^(key): /d??ns/
  • (Received Pronunciation, Cockney, Estuary, Jamaica) IPA^(key): [d??ns]
  • (Cultivated Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): [dä?ns]
• Rhymes: -??ns, -æns

Noun

dance (countable and uncountable, plural dances)

1. A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction.

   • "I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places. […]"

2. A social gathering where dancing is the main activity.

   • "I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places. […]"

3. (uncountable) The art, profession, and study of dancing.
4. (uncountable) A genre of modern music characterised by sampled beats, repetitive rhythms and few lyrics.
5. A piece of music with a particular dance rhythm.
6. (figuratively) A battle of wits, especially one commonly fought between two rivals.

   So how much longer are we gonna do this dance?

7. (figuratively, dated) Any strenuous or difficult movement, action, or task.
8. (heraldry) A normally horizontal stripe called a fess that has been modified to zig-zag across the center of a coat of arms from dexter to sinister.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:dance

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

dance (third-person singular simple present dances, present participle dancing, simple past and past participle danced)

1. (intransitive) To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music.

2. (intransitive) To leap or move lightly and rapidly.
3. (transitive) To perform the steps to.

4. (transitive) To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about.
5. (figuratively, euphemistic) To make love or have sex.

Synonyms

• (move with rhythmic steps or movements): throw shapes
• (to engage in sexual intercourse): do the deed, get some, have sex; see also Thesaurus:copulate

Derived terms

• dance attendance
• dancer
• dance with the one that brought you
• dirty dance
• line dance

Descendants

• ? Scottish Gaelic: danns
• ? Zulu: dansa

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Dances

References

Further reading

• Dance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• dance on Wikibooks.Wikibooks

Anagrams

• Caden, Decan, acned, caned, decan

French

Etymology

From English dance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?ns/

Noun

dance f (uncountable)

1. dance music

Galician

Verb

dance

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of danzar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of danzar

Middle French

Etymology

Old French dance.

Noun

dance f (plural dances)

1. dance

Descendants

• French: danse

Old French

Etymology

From Germanic, see English dance, French danse

Noun

dance f (oblique plural dances, nominative singular dance, nominative plural dances)

1. dance

Portuguese

Verb

dance

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of dançar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of dançar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of dançar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of dançar

References

• “dance” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
• “dance” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2021.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /?dan?e/, [?d?ãn?.?e]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /?danse/, [?d?ãn.se]

Verb

dance

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of danzar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of danzar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of danzar.

English

Alternative forms

• frolick

Etymology

From Dutch vrolijk (“cheerful”), from Middle Dutch vrolijc, from Old Dutch fr?l?k, from Proto-Germanic *frawal?kaz. Compare German fröhlich (“blitheful, gaily, happy, merry”).

The first element, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *frawaz, is cognate with Middle English frow (“hasty”); the latter element, ultimately from *-l?kaz, is cognate with -ly, -like.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f??l?k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f??l?k/
• Rhymes: -?l?k
• Hyphenation: frol?ic

Adjective

frolic (comparative more frolic, superlative most frolic)

1. (now rare) Merry, joyous, full of mirth; later especially, frolicsome, sportive, full of playful mischief. [from 1530s]
   • 1645, John Milton, “L’Allegro” in Poems, London: Humphrey Moseley, p. 31,^[1]

     The frolick wind that breathes the Spring,

     Zephyr with Aurora playing,

     As he met her once a Maying

     There on Beds of Violets blew,

   • 1682, Edmund Waller, “Of Love” in Poems, &c. written upon several occasions, and to several persons, London: H. Herringman, 5th edition, 1686, p. 73,^[2]

     For women, born to be controul’d,

     Stoop to the forward and the bold,

     Affect the haughty and the proud,

     The gay, the frollick, and the loud.
2. (obsolete, rare) Free; liberal; bountiful; generous.

Verb

frolic (third-person singular simple present frolics, present participle frolicking, simple past and past participle frolicked)

1. (intransitive) To make merry; to have fun; to romp; to behave playfully and uninhibitedly. [from 1580s]

2. (transitive, archaic) To cause to be merry.

Inflection

Derived terms

• rollick

Translations

Noun

frolic (plural frolics)

1. Gaiety; merriment. [from 1610s]
   • 1832-1888, Louisa May Alcott

     the annual jubilee […] filled the souls of old and young with visions of splendour, frolic and fun.

   • 2012 (original 1860), Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun - Page 276:

     By the old-fashioned magnificence of this procession, it might worthily have included his Holiness in person, with a suite of attendant Cardinals, if those sacred dignitaries would kindly have lent their aid to heighten the frolic of the Carnival.

2. A playful antic.
   • 1680, James Dillon, 3rd Earl of Roscommon, Art of Poetry

     He would be at his frolic once again.

3. (obsolete, chiefly US) A social gathering.

Translations

See also

• cavort

Related terms

• frolicsome

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “frolic”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN