GAVOT

Definition: GAVOT

GAVOT

Noun

1. A kind of difficult dance; a dance tune, the air of which has two brisk and lively, yet dignified, strains in common time, each played twice over.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "GAVOT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Amusement	Dance; hop, reel, rigadoon, saraband, hornpipe, bolero, ballroom dance; minuet, waltz, polka, fox trot, tango, samba, rhumba, twist, stroll, hustle, cha-cha; fandango, cancan; bayadere; breakdown, cake-walk, cornwallis, break dancing; nautch-girl; shindig; skirtdance, stag dance, Virginia reel, square dance; galop, galopade; jig, Irish jig, fling, strathspey; allemande; gavot, gavotte, tarantella; mazurka, morisco, morris dance; quadrille; country dance, folk dance; cotillon, Sir Roger de Coverley; ballet; (drama); ball; bal, bal masque, bal costume; masquerade; Terpsichore.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: GAVOT

Non-English Usage: "GAVOT" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Albanian (gavotte).

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Language		Translations for "GAVOT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		gavotte (gavotte). (various references)

Pig Latin		avotgay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "GAVOT": gavots, gavotte, gavotted, gavottes, gavotting. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "GAVOT" (pronounced 'Gav"ot'): Divot, Eyot, jabot, Magot, Piot, Pyot, Ryot, Sciot, Snacot, spigot, Tarot, Zealot. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-g-o-t-v"
	-1 letter: goat, toga.
	-2 letters: ago, avo, gat, goa, got, oat, ova, tag, tao, tav, tog, vat.
	-3 letters: ag, at, go, ta, to.
	Words containing the letters "a-g-o-t-v"
	+1 letter: gavots.
	+2 letters: gavotte, outgave, voltage.
	+3 letters: avigator, gavotted, gavottes, graviton, megavolt, ravigote, travelog, vagotomy, voltages.
	+4 letters: avigators, cavorting, gavotting, gravitons, megavolts, navigator, obviating, outraving, ovulating, ravigotes, solvating, travelogs, vagotonia, vagotonic, violating.
	+5 letters: advocating, bloviating, cogitative, derogative, divagation, gravestone, innovating, invigorate, invocating, levigation, motivating, navigation, navigators, nonvintage, outbraving, outvaluing, overacting, overeating, overhating, overrating, overtaking, overtaxing, renovating, travelogue, vagotomies, vagotonias, variegator, vegetation.
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