Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to dance
Participle: danced
Gerund: dancing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | dance |
| you | dance |
| he;she;it | dances |
| we | dance |
| you | dance |
| they | dance |
Perfect
| I | have danced |
| you | have danced |
| he;she;it | has danced |
| we | have danced |
| you | have danced |
| they | have danced |
Past
| I | danced |
| you | danced |
| he;she;it | danced |
| we | danced |
| you | danced |
| they | danced |
Pluperfect
| I | had danced |
| you | had danced |
| he;she;it | had danced |
| we | had danced |
| you | had danced |
| they | had danced |
Future
| I | will dance |
| you | will dance |
| he;she;it | will dance |
| we | will dance |
| you | will dance |
| they | will dance |
Future Perfect
| I | will have danced |
| you | will have danced |
| he;she;it | will have danced |
| we | will have danced |
| you | will have danced |
| they | will have danced |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | dance |
| you | dance |
| he;she;it | dance |
| we | dance |
| you | dance |
| they | dance |
Perfect
| I | have danced |
| you | have danced |
| he;she;it | have danced |
| we | have danced |
| you | have danced |
| they | have danced |
Imperfect
| I | danced |
| you | danced |
| he;she;it | danced |
| we | danced |
| you | danced |
| they | danced |
Pluperfect
| I | had danced |
| you | had danced |
| he;she;it | had danced |
| we | had danced |
| you | had danced |
| they | had danced |
Conditional
Present
| I | would dance |
| you | would dance |
| he;she;it | would dance |
| we | would dance |
| you | would dance |
| they | would dance |
Perfect
| I | would have danced |
| you | would have danced |
| he;she;it | would have danced |
| we | would have danced |
| you | would have danced |
| they | would have danced |
Imperative
| you | dance |
| we | Let's dance |
| you | dance |
Verbs conjugated like 'dance'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'dance'
daunce,
hance,
lance,
nance,
Nance,
ace,
advance,
ante,
bace,
bane,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to engage in sexual intercourse
- bang, bauf, beat, boff, boink, bone, bonk, bop, bounce, breed, bump nasties, bump uglies, catch a dick, cohabit, company, copulate, couple, discuss Uganda, do it, do the deed, do the nasty, eff, engender, exchange flesh, expletive deleted, feck, frack, frak, frig, fuck, get busy, get freaky, get it, get it on, get jiggy, get laid, get one's end away, get one's freak on, get one's groove on, get one's leg over, get one's oats, get physical, get some, go all the way, graft the forked tree, haul one's ashes, have it off, have marital relations, have sex, have sexual relations, hump, intercourse, jig-jig, make it, make love, make the beast with two backs, make whoopee, mate, meddle, ming, play, ride, rock and roll, roger, roll around, root, see someone's etchings, sex, shag, share a bed, shelve, show someone one's etchings, slap bellies, sleep together, stick, tumble, wango tango
- prance
- foot, trip, hoof, jig, jitterbug, step, waltz, tread
- hop
- skip, jump, leap, bob, bobble, cavort, sway, swirl
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Vulgar Latin *dantiāreder.
3. Anglo-Norman dauncerbor.
4. Middle English dauncen
5. English dance
6. Inherited from Middle English dauncen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman dauncer, from Vulgar Latin *dantiāre, of uncertain origin. Displaced native Old English sealtian, Old English frīcian, and partially displaced Old English hlēapan (“to leap, dance, run”, whence modern leap). Doublet of danza.
Verbs referencing "dance"
Zulu
dansa, Ido dansar.
Sample Sentences
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God bless that stewardess for her piously fraudulent account of January voyages! God bless her for her clear recollection of the companion passage of last year, when nobody was ill, and everybody dancing from morning to night, and it was ‘a run ’ of twelve days, and a piece of the purest frolic, and delight, and jollity ! All happiness be with her for her bright face and her pleasant Scotch tongue, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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“ Aint she a peart young un ? ” said Tom, holding her from him to take a full-length view; then, getting up, he set her on his broad shoulder, and began capering and dancing with her, while Mas’r George snapped at her with his pocket-handkerchief, and Mose and Pete, now returned again, roared after her like bears, till Aunt Chloe declared that they “ fairly took her [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] As, according to her own statement, this surgical operation was a matter of daily occurrence in the cabin, the declaration no whit abated the merriment, till every one had roared and tumbled and danced themselves down to a state of composure.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Here too are lanes and alleys, paved with mud knee-deep, underground chambers, where they dance and game; the walls bedecked with rough designs of ships, and forts, and flags, and American eagles out of number: ruined houses, open to the street, whence, through wide gaps in the walls, other [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] snapping his fingers, rolling his eyes, turning in his knees, presenting the backs of his legs in front, spinning about on his toes and heels like nothing but the man 's fingers on the tambourine; dancing with two left legs, two right legs, two wooden legs, two wire legs, two spring legs—all sorts of legs and no legs—what is this to him ? And in what walk of life, or dance of life, does man ever get [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] legs, two spring legs—all sorts of legs and no legs—what is this to him ? And in what walk of life, or dance of life, does man ever get such stimulating applause as thunders about him, when, having danced his partner off her feet, and himself too, he finishes by leaping gloriously on the bar-counter, and calling for something to drink, with the chuckle of a million of counterfeit Jim Crows, in one [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] between the two leaders, as if he were saying to himself, ‘We have done this often before, but now I think we shall have a crash. ’ He takes a rein in each hand; jerks and pulls at both; and dances on the splashboard with both feet (keeping his seat, of course ) like the late lamented Ducrow on two of his fiery coursers. We come to the spot, sink down in the mire nearly to the coach windows, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] pace. It is impossible to stop them, and at the bottom there is a deep hollow, full of water. The coach rolls frightfully. The insides scream. The mud and water fly about us. The black driver dances like a madman. Suddenly we are all right by some extraordinary means, and stop to breathe.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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“ I'll have Sambo and Quimbo up here, to sing and dance one of their hell dances, and keep off these horrid notions, ” said Legree; and, putting on his hat, he went on to the verandah, and blew a horn, with which he commonly summoned his two sable [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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It was a superb day. The blue waves of Lake Erie danced, rippling and sparkling, in the sun-light. A fresh breeze blew from the shore, and the lordly boat ploughed her way right gallantly onward.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)