dancing
dancing is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.from Dance. Dancing girl, one of the women in the East Indies whose profession is to dance in the temples, or for the amusement of spectators. There are various classes of dancing girls. -- Dancing master, a teacher of dancing. -- Dancing school, a school or place where dancing is taught.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- absurdity
- anticlimax
- awkward
- baroque
- bathos
- bear
- bizarre
- bombast
- bombastic
- buffoonery
- burlesque
- comedy
- comical
- comicality
- commit
- contemptible
- derisive
- doggerel
- droll
- drollery
- drollish
- eccentric
- eccentricity
- extravagance
- extravagant
- fanciful
- fantastic
- farce
- farcical
- fool
- frippery
- from
- fun
- funny
- gimcrack
- grotesque
- heroic
- inflated
- ironical
- laugh
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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