trance

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See also: Trance and trancé

English

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Etymology 1

From Middle English traunce, from Anglo-Norman transe (“fear of coming evil; passage from life to death”), from transir (“to be numb with fear; to die, pass on”), from Latin trānseō (“to cross over”).

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɑːns
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  • Rhymes: -æns

Noun

trance (countable and uncountable, plural trances)

  1. (countable) A dazed or unconscious condition.
  2. (countable) A state of awareness, concentration, and/or focus that filters experience and information (for example, a state of meditation or possession by some being).
    • Bible, Acts x. 10
      And he became very hungry, and would have eaten; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance.
    • Spenser
      My soul was ravished quite as in a trance.
  3. (countable, psychology) A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention; particularly one induced by hypnosis.
  4. (uncountable, music) Short for trance music (“genre of electronic dance music”).
Alternative forms
Derived terms
Descendants
  • French: trance
Translations
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Verb

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  1. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) be in a trance; to entrance.
    • Shakespeare
      And there I left him tranced.

Etymology 2

The verb is derived from Middle English traunce, trauncen, trancen (“to move about (?); to prance (?); to trample the ground”) (whence modern English trounce with the same senses),[1] possibly either:[2]

The noun is probably derived from the verb.

Verb

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  1. (intransitive) To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.
    Synonym: (dialectal) trounce
  2. (intransitive) To pass across or over; to traverse.
    Synonym: (dialectal) trounce
    • Beaumont and Fletcher
      Trance the world over.
    • Tennyson
      When thickest dark did trance the sky.
  3. (intransitive) To travel quickly over a long distance.
    Synonym: (dialectal) trounce

Noun

trance (plural trances)

  1. (obsolete except British, dialectal) A tedious journey.
    Synonym: (dialectal) trounce

References

  1. ^ Compare “trance, v.2”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1914; “trounce, v.2”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1915.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 “trauncen, v.(2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  3. ^ “trauncen, v.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “trance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English trance.

Pronunciation

Noun

trance f (uncountable)

  1. trance (music genre)

Anagrams

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English trance.

Noun

trance f (uncountable)

  1. trance (music genre)

Anagrams

Middle English

Noun

trance

  1. Alternative form of traunce

Polish

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Etymology

Borrowed from English trance.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): //trɛw̃s// invalid IPA characters (//)

Noun

trance m inan

  1. trance (music genre)

Declension

Declension of trance
singular
nominative trance
genitive trance'u
dative trance'owi
accusative trance
instrumental trance'em
locative transie
vocative transie

References

  • Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, M. Bańko, PWN 2003, →ISBN

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English trance.

Noun

trance m (uncountable)

  1. (music) trance (a genre of electronic dance music)

Etymology 2

Verb

trance

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Etymology 3

Noun

trance m (plural trances)

  1. Obsolete form of transe.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English trance.

Noun

trance m (plural trances)

  1. trance
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