dance vs samba

dance and samba both are nouns.

dance and samba both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
dance	Yes	No	Yes	No
samba	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, samba is a hyponym of dance; that is, samba is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than dance:

dance: move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance
samba: dance the samba

Other hyponyms of dance include jive, hoof, clog, tap dance, belly dance, heel, shimmy, bebop, bop, bump, twist, waltz, waltz around, tap, tapdance, tango, shag, foxtrot, contra danse, contradance, contredanse, country-dance, break-dance, break, break dance, cakewalk, conga, two-step, Charleston, boogie, cha-cha, disco, mambo, polka, one-step, rhumba, rumba, mosh, slam, slam dance, thrash, jig, jitterbug, folk dance, square dance, quickstep, kick, skank, grind, twerk.

dance (noun)	samba (noun)
taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music	a lively dance from Brazil, with roots from Africa
an artistic form of nonverbal communication	a form of canasta using three decks of cards and six jokers
a party for social dancing	music composed for dancing the samba
a party of people assembled for dancing	large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood

dance (verb)	samba (verb)
move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance	dance the samba
move in a graceful and rhythmical way
skip, leap, or move up and down or sideways

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