name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
tango
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈtæ̞ŋɡəʊ̯/
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Received-Pronunciation: [ˈthæ̞ŋɡəʊ̯]
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General-American: /ˈtæ̝ŋɡoʊ̯/ without æ-raising
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General-American: [ˈthæ̝ŋɡoʊ̯] without æ-raising
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General-American: /ˈtæ̝ŋɡɔʊ̯/ without æ-raising
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General-American: [ˈthæ̝ŋɡɔʊ̯] without æ-raising
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/ˈteɪ̯ŋɡoʊ̯/ æ-raising
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[ˈteɪ̯ŋɡoʊ̯] æ-raising
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/ˈtɛ̃ŋɡoʊ̯/ æ-raising
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[ˈthɛ̃ŋɡoʊ̯] æ-raising
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Australian: /ˈtæ̞ŋɡəʉ̯/
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Australian: [ˈthæ̞ŋɡəʉ̯]
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Australian: /ˈtæ̞ŋɡɐ̞ʉ̯/
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Australian: [ˈthæ̞ŋɡɐ̞ʉ̯]
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rhymes with -æŋɡəʊ
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CMU ARPABET: T AE1 NG G OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A standard ballroom dance in 4/4 time; or a social dance, the Argentine tango.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: dance, dancing, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
Meaning 3
A Spanish flamenco dance with different steps from the Argentine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: dance, dancing, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
Meaning 4
A piece of music suited to such a dance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
Meaning 5
A dark orange colour shade; deep tangerine
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noun
Meaning 6
Alternative letter-case form of Tango from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
Qualifier: international standards
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noun
Meaning 7
A target; an enemy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, slang
Topics: government, law-enforcement, military, politics, war
Examples
- Tango down!
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verb
Meaning 8
To dance the tango.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
Meaning 9
To mingle or interact (with each other).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, slang
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noun
Meaning 10
a ballroom dance of Latin-American origin
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: ballroom dancing, ballroom dance
noun
Meaning 11
music written in duple time for dancing the tango
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: dance music
verb
Meaning 12
dance a tango
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: dance, trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe
History
Etymology
Two main origins: * Borrowed from Italian Tango, probably a patronymic surname from a Germanic personal name. * Borrowed from Japanese 丹後 (Tango), the name of an old province of central Japan.
Borrowed from Rioplatense Spanish tango, probably from a Niger-Congo language (compare Ibibio tamgu (“to dance”)).
From translingual Tango (representing the letter T), from English tango (see above).
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: تَانْغُو (tanḡū) — ballroom dance
- Arabic: تَانْغُو (tangō) — ballroom dance
- Armenian: տանգո (tango) — ballroom dance
- Catalan: tango — ballroom dance
- Chinese Mandarin: 探戈舞 (tàngēwǔ) — ballroom dance
- Czech: tango — ballroom dance
- Finnish: tango — ballroom dance
- French: tango — ballroom dance
- Galician: tango — ballroom dance
- German: Tango — ballroom dance
- Hebrew: טנגו — ballroom dance
- Hungarian: tangó — ballroom dance
- Irish: tangó — ballroom dance
- Japanese: タンゴ (tango) — ballroom dance
- Korean: 탱고 (taenggo) — ballroom dance
- Lithuanian: tango — ballroom dance
- Polish: tango — ballroom dance
- Portuguese: tango — ballroom dance
- Russian: та́нго (tángo) — ballroom dance
- Slovak: tango — ballroom dance
- Spanish: tango — ballroom dance
- Tagalog: tanggo — ballroom dance
- Turkish: tango — ballroom dance