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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line;
[syn: country-dance, country dancing, contredanse, contra danse, contradance]


VERB (1)

1. perform a contradance;
[syn: contradance, country-dance, contredanse, contra danse]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Country-dance \Coun"try-dance`\ (-d?ns`), n. [Prob. an adaptation of contradance.] See Contradance. [1913 Webster] He had introduced the English country-dance to the knowledge of the Dutch ladies. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

country-dance n 1: a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line [syn: country-dance, country dancing, contredanse, contra danse, contradance] v 1: perform a contradance [syn: contradance, country-dance, contredanse, contra danse]