Usually means: Traditional dance expressing cultural heritage.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. folk dance: Merriam-Webster
  2. folk dance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. folk dance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. folk-dance, folk-dance, folk dance: Collins English Dictionary
  5. folk dance: Vocabulary.com
  6. folk-dance: Wordnik
  7. folk dance: Wiktionary
  8. folk dance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. folk dance: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. folk-dance, folk dance: Dictionary.com
  11. Folk dance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. folk dance: Rhymezone
  13. folk dance: FreeDictionary.org
  14. folk dance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. folk-dance, folk dance: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. folk dance: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. folk-dance, folk dance: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. folk dance: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (folk dance)

▸ noun:  Any dance traditionally performed by the common people of a specific region.

Similar:
folk dancing, vernacular dance, spring dance, oriental dance, Africanist dance, belly dance, dance music, Java, snake dance, kolo, more...

Opposite:
formal dance, ballroom dance, choreographed dance

Types:
waltz, polka, square dance, contrdance, line dance, clogging, Irish step dance, flamenco, more...

Phrases:
Assyrian folk dance, Folk dance of Mexico, lively folk dance, british folk line dance, american folk dance, more...

Adjectives:
gypsy, two-step, side, adagio, german, chicken, social, danceable, twosome, skank, terpsichorean

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Similar:
folk dancing, vernacular dance, spring dance, oriental dance, Africanist dance, belly dance, dance music, Java, snake dance, kolo, more...

Opposite:
formal dance, ballroom dance, choreographed dance

Types:
waltz, polka, square dance, contrdance, line dance, clogging, Irish step dance, flamenco, more...

Phrases:
Assyrian folk dance, Folk dance of Mexico, lively folk dance, british folk line dance, american folk dance, more...

Adjectives:
gypsy, two-step, side, adagio, german, chicken, social, danceable, twosome, skank, terpsichorean



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