longways dance vs contra danse

longways dance and contra danse both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
longways dance	Yes	No	No	No
contra danse	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, contra danse is a hypernym of longways dance; that is, contra danse is a word with a broader meaning than longways dance:

longways dance: country dancing performed with couples in two long lines facing each other
contra danse: a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line

Other hypernyms of longways dance include contradance, contredanse, country-dance, country dancing.

longways dance (noun)	contra danse (noun)
country dancing performed with couples in two long lines facing each other	a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line

longways dance (verb)	contra danse (verb)
	perform a contradance