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Noun: country dance
  1. A type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line
    "The community centre hosted weekly country dance sessions for all ages";
    - country dancing, contredanse, contra danse, contradance
Verb: country-dance  kún-tree dãn(t)s
  1. Perform a contradance
    "We can country-dance at the harvest festival";
    - contradance, contredanse, contra danse

Derived forms: country-dances, country dances

Type of: dance, folk dance, folk dancing, trip the light fantastic [archaic], trip the light fantastic toe [archaic]

Encyclopedia: Country dance