noun
Meaning 1
A ballroom dance with a slow-slow-quick-quick rhythm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
foxtrot
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈfɒkstɹɒt/
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CMU ARPABET: F AA1 K S T R AA0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A pace with short steps, as in changing from trotting to walking.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
Alternative letter-case form of Foxtrot from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
Qualifier: international standards
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verb
Meaning 4
To dance the foxtrot.
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noun
Meaning 5
a ballroom dance in quadruple time; combines short and long and fast and slow steps fixed sequences
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fox-trot
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: ballroom dancing, ballroom dance
verb
Meaning 6
dance the foxtrot
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dance, trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe
History
Etymology
From fox + trot.
Across languages
Translations
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: ֆոքստրոտ (fokʻstrot) — a ballroom dance
- Azerbaijani: fokstrot — a ballroom dance
- Catalan: foxtrot — a ballroom dance
- Czech: foxtrot — a ballroom dance
- Esperanto: fokstroto — a ballroom dance
- Finnish: fokstrotti — a ballroom dance
- French: fox-trot — a ballroom dance
- German: Foxtrott — a ballroom dance
- Greek: είδος χορού (eídos choroú) — a ballroom dance
- Hebrew: פוקסטרוט — a ballroom dance
- Hungarian: foxtrott — a ballroom dance
- Japanese: フォックストロット (fokkusutorotto) — a ballroom dance
- Polish: fokstrot — a ballroom dance
- Russian: фокстро́т (fokstrót) — a ballroom dance
- Slovak: foxtrot — a ballroom dance
- Swedish: foxtrot — a ballroom dance
- Turkish: fokstrot — a ballroom dance
- Welsh: llwynog — a ballroom dance