waltz
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
German Walzer, from walzen (“to dance”), from Old High German walzan (“to turn”), from Proto-Germanic *walt- (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to turn”).
[edit] Noun
Wikipedia 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
[edit] Translations
a ballroom dance
[edit] 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.
- (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!
- 2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos”, BBC Sport:
- Oxlade-Chamberlain, 18, became the youngest English Champions League scorer when he waltzed across the area to plant a low shot into the corner.
- (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:
[edit] Translations
dance
