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War Dance

Definition: War Dance

War Dance

Noun

1. A ceremonial dance performed before a battle or after a victory.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms within Context: War Dance

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Defiance

Verb: defy, dare, beard; brave; (courage); bid defiance to; set at defiance, set at naught; hurl defiance at; dance the war dance, beat the war drums; snap the fingers at, laugh to scorn; disobey.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: War Dance

English words defined with "war dance": pyrrhicWar song. (references)
Specialty definitions using "war dance": DanseLochinvar. (references)

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Modern Usage: War Dance

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

A Zulu War Dance (1899)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: War Dance

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Red hot Republicans on the Democratic gridiron. "The San Domingo war dance".Credit: Library of Congress.

Indian war dance. Molalla Buckaroo. Molalla, Oregon.Credit: Library of Congress.

War dance of the Sauks and Foxes / on stone by Corbould from a painting by P. Rindisbacher ; printed by C. Hullmandel.Credit: Library of Congress.

War dance of the Sauks and Foxes / on stone by Corbould from a painting by P. Rindisbacher ; printed by C. Hullmandel.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: War Dance

Language Translations for "war dance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

боен танц. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arway anceday

   

Swedish

  

krigsdans. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

zafer dansı, savaş dansı. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: War Dance

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-n-r-w"

-2 letters: arcade, arcane, canard, cedarn, craned, dancer, nacred, wander, warden, warned.

-3 letters: acned, acred, anear, arced, areca, arena, award, aware, awned, cadre, caned, caner, cared, cawed, cedar, crane, dance, dawen, denar, dewan, dewar, drawn, nacre, raced, rance, redan, rewan, wader, waned, wared.

-4 letters: aced, acne, acre, anew, area, awed, cade, cane, card, care, carn.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-e-n-r-w"
 

+4 letters: backwardness.

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Alternative Orthography: War Dance


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 61 72      44 61 6E 63 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01100001 01110010 00100000 01000100 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#97 &#114 &#32 &#68 &#97 &#110 &#99 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0061 0072      0044 0061 006E 0063 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

57678423867806971

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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