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country-dance vs folk dance

folk dance vs country-dance

country-dance and folk dance both are nouns.

country-dance and folk dance both are verbs.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
country-dance Yes No Yes No
folk dance Yes No Yes No
As nouns, folk dance is a hypernym of country-dance; that is, folk dance is a word with a broader meaning than country-dance:
  • country-dance: a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line
  • folk dance: a style of dancing that originated among ordinary people (not in the royal courts)
Other hypernyms of country-dance include folk dancing.
country-dance (noun) folk dance (noun)
a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line a style of dancing that originated among ordinary people (not in the royal courts)
country-dance (verb) folk dance (verb)
perform a contradance perform a folk-dance
Difference between country-dance and folk dance

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