PAVANE meaning: Slow, stately dance, Renaissance origin

We found 19 dictionaries that define the word pavane:

General (16 matching dictionaries)

pavane: Merriam-Webster
pavane: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
pavane: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
pavane: Collins English Dictionary
pavane: Vocabulary.com
Pavane, pavane: Wordnik
pavane: Wiktionary
pavane: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
pavane: Infoplease Dictionary
pavane: Dictionary.com
Pavane (disambiguation), Pavane (novel), Pavane: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
pavane: Rhymezone
pavane: FreeDictionary.org
pavane: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
pavane: Mnemonic Dictionary
pavane: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)

Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
Dance (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

pavane: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pavane)

▸ noun:  (music) A musical style characteristic of the 16th and 17th centuries.
▸ noun:  (music, dance) A moderately slow, courtly processional dance in duple time/meter.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, rare) To dance the pavane.

Opposite:

lively, energetic, fast-paced.

Adjectives:

stately, slow, old, solemn, spanish, sad, earlier, dignified

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