Dictionary

war dance en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A ceremonial dance performed before a major battle or after a victory, usually by a tribe.
   • There was a greyness in the east by the time we had completed the Navajo war dance on the front lawn. 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 20:

Forms

Deriveds

weasel war dance

Translations (12)

pl taniec wojenny (ceremonial dance performed before a major battle or after a victory) · gl danza de guerra (ceremonial dance performed before a major battle or after a victory) · cmn 戰爭舞 /战争舞 (ceremonial dance performed before a major battle or after a victory) · cmn 戰舞 /战舞 (ceremonial dance performed before a major battle or after a victory) · grc πυρρίχη (ceremonial dance performed before a major battle or after a victory) · la tripudium (ceremonial dance performed before a major battle or after a victory) · fi sotatanssi (ceremonial dance performed before a major battle or after a victory) · fr danse guerrière (ceremonial dance performed before a major battle or after a victory) · cs válečný tanec (ceremonial dance performed before a major battle or after a victory) · de Kriegstanz (ceremonial dance performed before a major battle or after a victory) · fr danse de guerre (ceremonial dance performed before a major battle or after a victory) · cmn 戰陣舞 /战阵舞 (ceremonial dance performed before a major battle or after a victory)