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PRONUNCIATION OF DANCE OF DEATH

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DANCE OF DEATH

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Dance of death is a noun.
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WHAT DOES DANCE OF DEATH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

dance of death

Danse Macabre

Dance of Death, also variously called Danse Macabre, Danza Macabra, Dansul Morţii, Danza de la Muerte, Dansa de la Mort, Dança Macabra, Totentanz, Dodendans, Surmatants, is an artistic genre of late-medieval allegory on the universality of death: no matter one's station in life, the Dance of Death unites all. The Danse Macabre consists of the dead or personified Death summoning representatives from all walks of life to dance along to the grave, typically with a pope, emperor, king, child, and labourer. They were produced to remind people of the fragility of their lives and how vain were the glories of earthly life. Its origins are postulated from illustrated sermon texts; the earliest recorded visual scheme was a now lost mural in the Saints Innocents Cemetery in Paris dating from 1424–25.

Definition of dance of death in the English dictionary

The definition of dance of death in the dictionary is a pictorial, literary, or musical representation, current esp in the Middle Ages, of a dance in which living people, in order of social precedence, are led off to their graves, by a personification of death Also called : danse macabre.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DANCE OF DEATH

dance
dance attendance on someone
dance band
dance card
dance company
dance floor
dance hall
dance hostess
dance music
dance programme
dance studio
danceable
dancehall
dancer
Dancercise
dancette
dancettee
dancetty
dancey
dancical

WORDS THAT END LIKE DANCE OF DEATH

a matter of life and death
accidental death
brain death
breath
death
flog to death
in at the death
kiss of death
life-and-death
life-or-death
like grim death
living death
maternal death
megadeath
programmed cell death
put to death
scared to death
sudden cardiac death
sudden death
to death
wall of death

Synonyms and antonyms of dance of death in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «dance of death» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DANCE OF DEATH

Find out the translation of dance of death to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of dance of death from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dance of death» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

死亡之舞
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

danza de la muerte
570 millions of speakers

English

dance of death
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मौत का नृत्य
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

رقصة الموت
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Танец смерти
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

dança da morte
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মৃত্যুর নাচ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

danse de la mort
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tarian mati
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Totentanz
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

死の舞踏
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

죽음의 춤
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tarian pati
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

múa của cái chết
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இறப்பின் நடனம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मृत्यूचे नृत्य
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ölüm dansı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

danza della morte
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Taniec śmierci
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Танець смерті
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

dans de moarte
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

χορός του θανάτου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dans van die dood
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dödsdans
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dødsdans
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DANCE OF DEATH»

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The Dance of Death: An Agent Pendergast Novel
FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast's greatest enemy is one who has stalked him all of his life - his cunning and diabolical brother Diogenes.
Douglas Preston, 2010
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Dance of Death
Two brothers. One a top FBI agent. The other a brilliant, twisted criminal. An undying hatred between them. Now, a perfect crime. And the ultimate challenge: Stop me if you can...
Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child, 2005
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Dance of Death
After the bizarre deaths of her parents, Madeline never expects to feel happy again.
R.L. Stine, 2012
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Dance of Death
Presents the high profile case of Kimberly Renee Poole, a housewife and mother who led a secret life as a topless dancer at a local strip club where she convinced a patron--and lover--to kill her hopelessly devoted husband.
Dale Hudson, 2006
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Dance of Death
Why does every judge die or leave soon after he takes up the Swamiji’s case? The mystery slowly begins to unravel as the story progresses and out tumbles a shocking tale of horror, black magic and hypnotism.
Manna Bahadur, 2012
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The Dance of Death: Nigerian History and Christopher ...
This work analyses his poetry and considers its importance as prophecy in the light of the current concern about the direction of the Nigerian government.
Dubem Okafor, 1998
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The Dance of Death: A Graphic Commentary on the Danse ...
Gathers drawings about death by artists of the past and works by the author about the Holocaust, nuclear war, militarism and capital punishment
Fritz Eichenberg, 1983
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Dance Of Death
From The Genesis Code to The Murder Artist, John Case has established himself as the master of unrelenting suspense.
John Case, 2008
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Dance of Death: Kurt Jooss and the Weimar Years
The Dance of Death Death is inescapable. It makes no exceptions: rich or poor, genius or simpleton, death takes us all. This idea of death as the great equalizer was the main theme of a bizarre medieval ritual called the Dance of Death.
Suzanne Walther, 2013
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Dance of Death
This suspenseful drama features what might be the most provocative student-teacher relationship since David Mamet's Oleanna...beautifully melds hardheaded cynicism with the fleeting thrill of a crush.
‎2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DANCE OF DEATH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dance of death is used in the context of the following news items.
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'Sherlock's Last Case' at Charity Randall Theatre produces …
“Sherlock's Last Case” follows Strindberg's “Dance of Death” as Kinetic Theatre Company's second play of its two-play 2015 season. Originally ... «Tribune-Review, Jul 15»
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FESTIVAL OF CHICHESTER REVIEW: The Minerva Ensemble, St …
The magnificent Tarantella Dance of Death which ended the work illustrated the group working together in total harmony and empathy. «Midhurst and Petworth Observer, Jul 15»
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A Vyapar called Vyapam
What has followed thereafter is a macabre dance of death. The scam, one of the largest scam in the country's history, becomes all the more ... «ABP Live, Jul 15»
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Silver jubilee of AFSPA and counting…
Dancing of wild streams, flowing all over Kashmir was replaced by the naked dance of death. The roaring of AK 47 and machine guns silenced ... «Kashmir Images, Jul 15»
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Goodnight Vienna (2)
As we continue the dance of death in Vienna to the new deadline of July 7, Omri Ceren (on Twitter @ceronomri) writes in two emails combined ... «Power Line, Jul 15»
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Museum tour of the macabre
The aftermath of the Black Death, which devastated much of Europe, saw the rise of the allegorical Danse Macabre (Dance of Death) genre, ... «AsiaOne, Jun 15»
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In Karachi: dance of death
Once called the city of lights last week saw Karachi turned to a city of death, with more than 200 lives lost in just five days, as the mercury boiled ... «Kasmir Monitor, Jun 15»
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Lovely days discovering Lucerne
Under its timbered roof is a collection of detailed Dance of Death paintings, graphically recounting the horrors of the plague. Walking back ... «The West Australian, Jun 15»
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Tharparkar's dance of death
For the Thari, as the people of Tharparkar are known, death is always around the corner. According to the district health officer (DHO), so far ... «The Express Tribune, Jun 15»
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Alpha Beta review – as shocking as anything on the London stage
I can't think why; as a portrait of domestic entrapment, it rivals Strindberg's The Dance of Death. In Purni Morell's impressively claustrophobic ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»

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