different between tapdancing vs flamenco

English

Noun

tapdancing (uncountable)

1. The performance of tap dance.

English

Etymology

From Spanish flamenco, from Middle Dutch vlaminc (“Fleming”) (> Vlaming).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fl??m??k??/

Noun

flamenco (countable and uncountable, plural flamencos)

1. (uncountable) A genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, in Spain.
   • 2010, Mike Marqusee, The Guardian, 5 Feb 2010:

     It's impossible to tell the story of flamenco without talking about Lorca, who found in it a source of inspiration in a lifelong political-cultural-sexual struggle against bourgeois philistinism.

2. (countable) A song or dance performed in such a style.
   • 1977, Tennessee Williams, Vieux Carré, I.3:

     La Niña was so goddam terrific that after a month of singing with the vocal trio, she was singing solo and she was dancing a flamenco better'n a gypsy fireball!

Derived terms

• flamenco guitar

Translations

See also

• fandango

Verb

flamenco (third-person singular simple present flamencos, present participle flamencoing, simple past and past participle flamencoed)

1. (intransitive) To dance flamenco.

Finnish

Etymology

From Spanish flamenco, from Middle Dutch vlaminc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fl?me?k?o/, [?fl?me??k?o?]
• IPA^(key): /?fl?me?ko/, [?fl?me??ko?]

Noun

flamenco

1. flamenco

Declension

French

Noun

flamenco m (plural flamencos)

1. flamenco (music, dance)

Polish

Etymology

From Spanish flamenco, from Dutch Vlaming.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fla?m?n.k?/

Noun

flamenco n (indeclinable)

1. flamenco (genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain)
2. flamenco (song or a dance in such a style)

Further reading

• flamenco in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• flamenco in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

From Dutch Vlaming.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fla?menko/, [fla?m??.ko]

Adjective

flamenco (feminine flamenca, masculine plural flamencos, feminine plural flamencas)

1. Flemish
2. (relational) flamenco
3. (colloquial) insolent, cheeky

Noun

flamenco m (plural flamencos, feminine flamenca, feminine plural flamencas)

1. Fleming, a Flemish person

Noun

flamenco m (plural flamencos)

1. flamingo (bird)
2. flamenco (music)
3. flamenco (dance)

Derived terms

Noun

flamenco m (uncountable)

1. Flemish, the standard variety of Dutch used in Belgium
2. Flemish, a group of Dutch dialects spoken in Belgium

Related terms

• Flandes

See also

• bailaor, bailaora

Further reading

• “flamenco” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.