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Webster 1913 Edition
Waltz
Waltz
,Noun.
[G.
walzer
, from walzen
to roll, revolve, dance, OHG. walzan
to roll; akin to AS. wealtan
. See Welter
.] A dance performed by two persons in circular figures with a whirling motion; also, a piece of music composed in triple measure for this kind of dance.
Waltz
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Waltzed
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Waltzing
.] To dance a waltz.
Webster 1828 Edition
Waltz
WALTZ
,Noun.
Definition 2024
waltz
waltz
English
Noun
waltz (plural waltzes)
- A ballroom dance in 3/4 time.
- A piece of music for this dance (or in triple time).
- (informal) A simple task.
Derived terms
Translations
a ballroom dance
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piece of music
Verb
waltz (third-person singular simple present waltzes, present participle waltzing, simple past and past participle waltzed)
- (intransitive, transitive) To dance the waltz (with).
- They waltzed for twenty-one hours and seventeen minutes straight, setting a record.
- While waltzing her around the room, he stepped on her toes only once.
- (informal) To accomplish a task with little effort.(Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (intransitive, transitive) To move briskly and unhesitatingly.
- He waltzed into the room like he owned the place.
- You can't just waltz him in here without documentation!
- (transitive) To move with fanfare.
- 1884, Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter the Last:
- And he said, what he had planned in his head from the start, if we got Jim out all safe, was for us to […] take him back up home on a steamboat, in style, and pay him for his lost time, and write word ahead and get out all the niggers around, and have them waltz him into town with a torchlight procession and a brass-band, and then he would be a hero, and so would we.
- 1884, Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter the Last:
Translations
dance