LONGWAYS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Country dancing performed with couples in two long lines facing each other

Synonyms:

longways; longways dance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("longways" is a kind of...):

contra danse; contradance; contredanse; country-dance; country dancing (a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "longways"):

reel; Virginia reel (an American country dance which starts with the couples facing each other in two lines)

Meaning:

In the direction of the length

Example:

He cut the paper lengthwise

Synonyms:

lengthways; lengthwise; longitudinally; longways; longwise

Classified under:

Adverbs