merry dance
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4.4
- noun
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danza alegre
- I never tire of it ♪ Leading a merry dance ♪ If you don't mind having to go without things ♪ It's a fine life!
- merry dance and song
Examples
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With laughing song and merry dance -
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With laughing song and merry dance
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You've led me a merry dance, Sir Simon.
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Then let the throng Our joy advance With laughing song and merry dance
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During the festival, we enjoyed a merry dance under the stars, celebrating the joyous occasion.
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The children twirled and laughed, performing a merry dance to the lively music played by the band.
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At the wedding reception, everyone joined in a merry dance to celebrate the couple's happiness.
Synonyms
A joyful song with a circle dance performed at festivals long ago
Antonyms
How Lively
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and predictably built from 'merry' (joyful) + 'dance' (rhythmic movement), yielding 'a joyful/lively dance'. This simple adjective+noun compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English rules, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand it.
Etymology
Merry dance comes from old village celebrations when people would be merry, meaning 'happy', and join a lively dance together in the village square. That's why merry dance means 'a lively and joyful dance' today.