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waltz

Etymology

From German Category:English terms borrowed from German#WALTZ Category:English terms derived from German#WALTZ Walzer, from walzen (“to dance”), from Old High German Category:English terms derived from Old High German#WALTZ walzan (“to turn”), from Proto-Germanic Category:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#WALTZ *walt- (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#WALTZ *welH- (“to turn”). Doublet of valseCategory:English doublets#WALTZ. More at *waltaną.

Pronunciation

Noun

waltz (plural waltzes)Category:English lemmas#WALTZ Category:English nouns#WALTZ Category:English countable nouns#WALTZ Category:English entries with incorrect language header#WALTZ Category:Pages with entries#WALTZ Category:Pages with 2 entries#WALTZ

A ballroom dance in 3/4 time.
- 1938 October 26, The Daily News, Perth, page 11, column 5:
  Miss Esler and Mr. McMorrow went to Kalgoorlie to adjudicate at the goldfields waltz and quickstep championships, and found the standard of dancing surprisingly high.
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A piece of music for this dance (or in triple time).
(informal Category:English informal terms#WALTZ) A simple task.

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Translations

a ballroom dance

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Arabic: فَالْس m (fāls)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#WALTZ, رَقْصَة الْفَالْس f (raqṣat al-fāls)Category:Arabic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#WALTZ Category:Terms with Arabic translations#WALTZ
Armenian: վալս (hy) (vals)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#WALTZ
Azerbaijani: valsCategory:Terms with Azerbaijani translations#WALTZ
Bulgarian: валс (bg) m (vals)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#WALTZ
Catalan: vals (ca) mCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#WALTZ
Chinese:
Cantonese: 華爾茲 / 华尔兹 (waa⁴ ji⁵ zi¹)Category:Cantonese terms with redundant transliterations#WALTZ Category:Terms with Cantonese translations#WALTZ

Hakka: 華爾滋 / 华尔滋 (pà-lo-chṳ́, hôa-èr-chṳ)Category:Terms with Hakka translations#WALTZ

Hokkien: 華爾滋 / 华尔滋 (hôa-ní-chu)Category:Terms with Hokkien translations#WALTZ, 三步舞 (saⁿ-pō͘-bú)Category:Terms with Hokkien translations#WALTZ, oa-lù-chuhCategory:Terms with Hokkien translations#WALTZ

Mandarin: 華爾茲 / 华尔兹 (zh) (huá'ěrzī)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#WALTZ Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#WALTZ, 華爾滋 / 华尔滋 (huá'ěrzī)Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#WALTZ (Taiwan)
Czech: valčík (cs) mCategory:Terms with Czech translations#WALTZ
Danish: vals (da) cCategory:Terms with Danish translations#WALTZ
Estonian: valssCategory:Terms with Estonian translations#WALTZ
Finnish: valssi (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#WALTZ
French: valse (fr) fCategory:Terms with French translations#WALTZ
Galician: valse (gl) mCategory:Terms with Galician translations#WALTZ
German: Walzer (de) mCategory:Terms with German translations#WALTZ
Hungarian: keringő (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#WALTZ, valcer (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#WALTZ
Ingrian: valssiCategory:Terms with Ingrian translations#WALTZ
Irish: válsa mCategory:Terms with Irish translations#WALTZ
Italian: valzer (it) mCategory:Terms with Italian translations#WALTZ
Japanese: ワルツ (ja) (warutsu)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#WALTZ, 円舞曲 (ja) (enbukyoku)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#WALTZ
Korean: 왈츠 (ko) (walcheu)Category:Terms with Korean translations#WALTZ
Latvian: valsis mCategory:Terms with Latvian translations#WALTZ
Lithuanian: valsas mCategory:Terms with Lithuanian translations#WALTZ
Manx: valse mCategory:Terms with Manx translations#WALTZ
Māori: warahiCategory:Terms with Māori translations#WALTZ, tengitengiCategory:Terms with Māori translations#WALTZ
Norman: valse fCategory:Terms with Norman translations#WALTZ
Norwegian:
Bokmål: vals (no) mCategory:Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations#WALTZ

Nynorsk: vals mCategory:Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations#WALTZ
Occitan: valsa fCategory:Terms with Occitan translations#WALTZ
Persian: والس (fa) (vâls)Category:Terms with Persian translations#WALTZ
Plautdietsch: Waulz mCategory:Terms with Plautdietsch translations#WALTZ
Polish: walc (pl) mCategory:Terms with Polish translations#WALTZ
Portuguese: valsa (pt) fCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#WALTZ
Russian: вальс (ru) m (valʹs)Category:Terms with Russian translations#WALTZ
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: валцер mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#WALTZ

Latin: valcer (sh) mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#WALTZ
Spanish: vals (es) mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#WALTZ
Swedish: vals (sv) cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#WALTZ
Turkish: vals (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#WALTZ
Vietnamese: van (vi)Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#WALTZ, van-xơCategory:Terms with Vietnamese translations#WALTZ
Volapük: valt (vo)Category:Terms with Volapük translations#WALTZ

piece of music

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Catalan: vals (ca) mCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#WALTZ
Chinese:
Cantonese: 華爾茲 / 华尔兹 (waa⁴ ji⁵ zi¹)Category:Cantonese terms with redundant transliterations#WALTZ Category:Terms with Cantonese translations#WALTZ, 圓舞曲 / 圆舞曲 (jyun⁴ mou⁵ kuk¹)Category:Cantonese terms with redundant transliterations#WALTZ Category:Terms with Cantonese translations#WALTZ

Hokkien: 華爾滋 / 华尔滋 (hôa-ní-chu)Category:Terms with Hokkien translations#WALTZ, oa-lù-chuhCategory:Terms with Hokkien translations#WALTZ

Mandarin: 華爾茲 / 华尔兹 (zh) (huá'ěrzī)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#WALTZ Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#WALTZ, 華爾滋 / 华尔滋 (huá'ěrzī)Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#WALTZ (Taiwan), 圓舞曲 / 圆舞曲 (zh) (yuánwǔqǔ)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#WALTZ Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#WALTZ
Danish: vals (da) cCategory:Terms with Danish translations#WALTZ
Finnish: valssi (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#WALTZ
French: valse (fr) fCategory:Terms with French translations#WALTZ
Galician: valse (gl) mCategory:Terms with Galician translations#WALTZ
German: Walzer (de) mCategory:Terms with German translations#WALTZ
Italian: valzer (it) mCategory:Terms with Italian translations#WALTZ
Manx: kiaull valse fCategory:Terms with Manx translations#WALTZ
Norwegian:
Bokmål: vals (no) mCategory:Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations#WALTZ

Nynorsk: vals mCategory:Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations#WALTZ
Polish: walc (pl) mCategory:Terms with Polish translations#WALTZ
Portuguese: valsa (pt) fCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#WALTZ
Russian: вальс (ru) m (valʹs)Category:Terms with Russian translations#WALTZ
Swedish: vals (sv) cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#WALTZ

simple task

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Finnish: tanssi (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#WALTZ

Verb

waltz (third-person singular simple present waltzes, present participle waltzing, simple past and past participle waltzed)Category:English lemmas#WALTZ Category:English verbs#WALTZ Category:English entries with incorrect language header#WALTZ Category:Pages with entries#WALTZ Category:Pages with 2 entries#WALTZ

(intransitive Category:English intransitive verbs#WALTZ, transitive Category:English transitive verbs#WALTZ) To dance the waltz (with).
They waltzed for twenty-one hours and seventeen minutes straight, setting a record.Category:English terms with usage examples#WALTZ

While waltzing her around the room, he stepped on her toes only once.Category:English terms with usage examples#WALTZ
- 2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 212:
  "Can you flamenco?" "If I have to. How about you?" "Love, I can barely waltz. Jive a bit if I'm pissed enough."
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(intransitive Category:English intransitive verbs#WALTZ, transitive Category:English transitive verbs#WALTZ, usually with in, into, around, etc.) To move briskly and unhesitatingly, especially in an inappropriately casual manner, or when unannounced or uninvited.
He waltzed into the room like he owned the place.Category:English terms with usage examples#WALTZ

You can't just waltz him in here without documentation!Category:English terms with usage examples#WALTZ
- 2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport‎:
  Oxlade-Chamberlain, 18, became the youngest English Champions League scorer when he waltzed across the area to plant a low shot into the corner.
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- 2021 February 25, Mara Altman, “Glitzy, Tragic and Selfish: Female Con Artists Waltz by Society’s Rules”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:
  The women in Ms. Telfer’s book waltz right by societal rules that would leave the rest of us at a standstill. We are left tsk-tsking, while also in awe.
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(informal Category:English informal terms#WALTZ) To accomplish a task with little effort.
Don't worry about the interview — you'll waltz it.Category:English terms with usage examples#WALTZ
(transitive Category:English transitive verbs#WALTZ) To move with fanfare.
- 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Chapter the last”, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
  And he said, what he had planned in his head from the start, if we got Jim out all safe, was for us to […] take him back up home on a steamboat, in style, and pay him for his lost time, and write word ahead and get out all the niggers around, and have them waltz him into town with a torchlight procession and a brass-band, and then he would be a hero, and so would we.
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Translations

dance

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Armenian: վալսել (hy) (valsel)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#WALTZ, վալս պարել (vals parel)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#WALTZ
Danish: danse valsCategory:Terms with Danish translations#WALTZ
Esperanto: valsiCategory:Terms with Esperanto translations#WALTZ
Finnish: tanssia valssiaCategory:Terms with Finnish translations#WALTZ, valssata (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#WALTZ
French: valser (fr)Category:Terms with French translations#WALTZ
Galician: valsear (gl)Category:Terms with Galician translations#WALTZ
Greek: βαλσάρω (el) (valsáro)Category:Terms with Greek translations#WALTZ
Hungarian: keringőzik (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#WALTZ, valcerezikCategory:Terms with Hungarian translations#WALTZ
Irish: válsáilCategory:Terms with Irish translations#WALTZ
Manx: valseCategory:Terms with Manx translations#WALTZ
Occitan: valsarCategory:Terms with Occitan translations#WALTZ
Portuguese: valsar (pt)Category:Terms with Portuguese translations#WALTZ
Russian: вальси́ровать (ru) (valʹsírovatʹ)Category:Terms with Russian translations#WALTZ
Spanish: valsar (es)Category:Terms with Spanish translations#WALTZ, bailar valsCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#WALTZ

move briskly and unhesitatingly

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Dutch: binnenstormen (nl)Category:Terms with Dutch translations#WALTZ
Finnish: tanssia (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#WALTZ, viedä (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#WALTZ (someone)

accomplish with little effort

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Finnish: tanssia (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#WALTZ

Related terms

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Czech

waltz (dance)

Declension

Declension of waltz (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	waltz	waltzy
genitive	waltzu	waltzů
dative	waltzu	waltzům
accusative	waltz	waltzy
vocative	waltze	waltzy
locative	waltzu	waltzech
instrumental	waltzem	waltzy

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