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country-dance vs folk dancing

folk dancing vs country-dance

country-dance and folk dancing both are nouns.

country-dance is a verb but folk dancing is not a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
country-dance Yes No Yes No
folk dancing Yes No No No
As nouns, folk dancing is a hypernym of country-dance; that is, folk dancing 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 dancing: a style of dancing that originated among ordinary people (not in the royal courts)
Other hypernyms of country-dance include folk dance.
country-dance (noun) folk dancing (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 dancing (verb)
perform a contradance
Difference between country-dance and folk dancing

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