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dance lesson

dance lesson

15 1.0
A class where people learn to dance
  • noun
  • /dæns ˈlɛsən/
translation icon : clase de baile
  • After trying a few styles, she decided to focus on ballet in her dance lessons.
  • teaching dance lessons

Before you, before you fight Tank, you need to get your dance lessons on 'cause you not ready yet.

Examples

  • The ballroom and the bumper car pavilion now host dances and dance lessons, and the Arcade building houses a theater.

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  • I'm taking dance lessons, and I just don't want my family to know.

  • Excuse me, could I ask for some information about dance lessons, please?

  • Go have a great dance lesson.

  • Well, we better get going if we wanna make it on time for our dance lesson.

  • So I signed us up for private dance lessons.

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  • I'll know after tomorrow when we have our first dance lesson!

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  • Honestly, if you could just give me some dance lessons, you would literally be saving my life.

  • Dance FX Studios teaches private country western dance lessons and group country two-step dance classes.

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  • I signed up for weekly dance lessons to improve my skills for the upcoming competition.

Synonyms

lesson
vsdance lesson
532 1.0

A period of teaching about one subject

focuses on teaching movement to music rather than any subject
tutorial
vsdance lesson
4.3

About teaching by a tutor or in small group sessions

focuses on teaching movement to music rather than general instruction

How Formal

course
506 1.8
crash course
17 3.4
class
1.0
dance lesson
15 1.0

Surface Forms

dance lesson singular
dance lessons plural

Morphology

dance + lesson

The meaning 'an occasion in which someone is taught how to dance' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'dance' (the activity of dancing) with 'lesson' (an instructional session). This is a common, compositional noun phrase pattern cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the MWE.

Etymology

Dance lesson comes from the simple idea of a dance and a lesson, where a teacher shows steps and people practice them. So, it means 'a time when someone is taught to dance'.