waltz

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waltz^¹

/wɒlts/ UK
/wɔːlts/ UK
/wɔlts/ US
/wɑlts/ cot caught merger

Rhymes with -ɔːlts, -ɒlts

Where it comes from

From German Walzer, from walzen (“to dance”), from Old High German walzan (“to turn”), from Proto-Germanic *walt- (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn”). Doublet of valse. More at *waltaną.

noun waltzes

A ballroom dance in 3/4 time. 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.
A piece of music for this dance (or in triple time).
informal A simple task.

verb waltzes · waltzing · waltzed

intransitive, transitive To dance the waltz (with). They waltzed for twenty-one hours and seventeen minutes straight, setting a record.
intransitive, transitive, usually, with in 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.
informal To accomplish a task with little effort. Don't worry about the interview — you'll waltz it.
Similar: breeze through
transitive To move with fanfare. 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 proces

Waltz^²

proper noun Waltzes

countable, uncountable A surname. According to the Atlantic, national security adviser Mike Waltz earlier this month convened a text conversation with top US officials, including Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, to discuss strikes on Houthi militants in Yemen who had been th
countable, uncountable A township in Wabash County, Indiana.
countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Rowan County, Kentucky.
countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Huron Township, Wayne County, Michigan.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: valse, waltz around, dancing, dance, counterfeiting, counterfeit, danse, twirl, whirl, float, glide, swirl, spin, stroll, saunter, slide

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noun a ballroom dance

Español	vals
한국어	왈츠 walcheu
日本語	ワルツ warutsu, 円舞曲 enbukyoku
中文	華爾茲 /华尔兹 huá'ěrzī
Português	valsa
Français	valse
Deutsch	Walzer
Italiano	valzer
Русский	вальс valʹs
Tiếng Việt	van, van-xơ
العربية	فَالْس fāls, رَقْصَة الْفَالْس raqṣat al-fāls

noun piece of music

中文	華爾茲 /华尔兹 huá'ěrzī, 圓舞曲 /圆舞曲 yuánwǔqǔ
Português	valsa
Français	valse
Deutsch	Walzer
Italiano	valzer
Русский	вальс valʹs

verb dance

Español	valsar, bailar vals
Português	valsar
Français	valser
Ελληνικά	βαλσάρω valsáro
Русский	вальси́ровать valʹsírovatʹ

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@misc{waltz_2026,
  title = {waltz},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/waltz},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}