trip the light fantastic toe vs folk dance

folk dance vs trip the light fantastic toe

trip the light fantastic toe is not a noun while folk dance is a noun.

trip the light fantastic toe and folk dance both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
trip the light fantastic toe	No	No	Yes	No
folk dance	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, folk dance is a hyponym of trip the light fantastic toe; that is, folk dance is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than trip the light fantastic toe:

trip the light fantastic toe: move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance
folk dance: perform a folk-dance

Other hyponyms of trip the light fantastic toe 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, samba, two-step, Charleston, boogie, cha-cha, disco, mambo, polka, one-step, rhumba, rumba, mosh, slam, slam dance, thrash, jig, jitterbug, square dance, quickstep, kick, skank, grind, twerk.

trip the light fantastic toe (noun)	folk dance (noun)
	a style of dancing that originated among ordinary people (not in the royal courts)

trip the light fantastic toe (verb)	folk dance (verb)
move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance	perform a folk-dance

Difference between trip the light fantastic toe and folk dance

© WordCmp.com 2024, CC-BY 4.0 / CC-BY-SA 3.0.