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6-letter words (8 found)

CANTER,CARNET,CENTRA,CREANT,NECTAR,RECANT,TANREC,TRANCE,

5-letter words (15 found)

ANTRE,CANER,CARET,CARTE,CATER,CRANE,CRATE,CRENA,EARNT,ENACT,NACRE,RANCE,REACT,RECTA,TRACE,

4-letter words (32 found)

ACER,ACNE,ACRE,ANCE,ANTE,ARET,CANE,CANT,CARE,CARN,CART,CATE,CENT,CERT,CRAN,EARN,ETNA,NARC,NARE,NEAR,NEAT,RACE,RANT,RATE,REAN,RENT,TACE,TANE,TARE,TARN,TEAR,TERN,

3-letter words (31 found)

ACE,ACT,ANE,ANT,ARC,ARE,ART,ATE,CAN,CAR,CAT,EAN,EAR,EAT,ERA,ERN,ETA,NAE,NAT,NET,RAN,RAT,REC,REN,RET,TAE,TAN,TAR,TEA,TEC,TEN,

2-letter words (13 found)

AE,AN,AR,AT,EA,EN,ER,ET,NA,NE,RE,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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Definitions and meaning of trance

trance

Etymology 1

From Middle English traunce, from Anglo-Norman transe (“fear of coming evil; passage from life to death”), from transir (“to be numb with fear; to die, pass on”), from Latin trānseō (“to cross over”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tɹɑːns/
    • Rhymes: -ɑːns
  • (General American) IPA(key): /tɹæns/
    • Rhymes: -æns

Noun

trance (countable and uncountable, plural trances)

  1. (countable) A dazed or unconscious condition.
  2. (countable) A state of awareness, concentration, or focus that filters experience and information (for example, a state of meditation or possession by some being).
  3. (countable, psychology) A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention; particularly one induced by hypnosis.
  4. (uncountable, music) Short for trance music (“genre of electronic dance music”).
Alternative forms
  • traunce (obsolete)
Derived terms
Descendants
  • French: trance
Translations

Verb

trance (third-person singular simple present trances, present participle trancing, simple past and past participle tranced)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) be in a trance; to entrance.
  2. (transitive, rare) To create in or via a trance.

Etymology 2

The verb is derived from Middle English traunce, trauncen, trancen (“to move about (?); to prance (?); to trample the ground”) (whence modern English trounce with the same senses, which see for more). The noun is probably derived from the verb.

Verb

trance (third-person singular simple present trances, present participle trancing, simple past and past participle tranced)

  1. (obsolete outside British, dialectal, intransitive) To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.
    Synonym: (dialectal) trounce
  2. (obsolete outside British, dialectal, intransitive) To pass across or over; to traverse.
    Synonym: (dialectal) trounce
  3. (obsolete outside British, dialectal, intransitive) To travel quickly over a long distance.
    Synonym: (dialectal) trounce

Noun

trance (plural trances)

  1. (obsolete outside British, dialectal) A tedious journey.
    Synonym: (dialectal) trounce

References

Anagrams

  • Canter, Cretan, canter, carnet, centra, creant, nectar, recant, tanrec

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English trance.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtræns/, [ˈt̪ræns̠]
  • IPA(key): /ˈtrɑnse/, [ˈt̪rɑ̝ns̠e̞]

Noun

trance

  1. trance (genre of electronic dance music)

Declension

Further reading

  • “trance”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English trance.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʁɑ̃s/
  • Homophones: transe, transes
  • Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

Noun

trance f (uncountable)

  1. trance (music genre)

Anagrams

  • carnet, centra, cernât, créant, encrât, tancer

Italian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English trance.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtrans/
  • Rhymes: -ans

Noun

trance f (invariable)

  1. trance (music genre)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtran.t͡ʃe/
  • Rhymes: -antʃe
  • Hyphenation: tràn‧ce

Noun

trance

  1. plural of trancia

References

Anagrams

  • Trenca, c'entra, cantre, centra

Middle English

Noun

trance

  1. Alternative form of traunce

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

trance m (definite singular trancen, indefinite plural trancer, definite plural trancene)

  1. form removed by a 1984 spelling decision; superseded by transe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

trance m (definite singular trancen, indefinite plural trancar, definite plural trancane)

  1. (pre-1984) alternative form of transe

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English trance.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /trans/
  • Rhymes: -ans
  • Syllabification: trance

Noun

trance m inan

  1. trance music

Declension

References

  • Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, M. Bańko, PWN 2003, →ISBN

Further reading

  • trance in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: tran‧ce

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English trance.

Noun

trance m (uncountable)

  1. (music) trance (a genre of electronic dance music)

Etymology 2

Verb

trance

  1. inflection of trançar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Etymology 3

Noun

trance m (plural trances)

  1. Obsolete form of transe.

Spanish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English trance.

Noun

trance m (plural trances)

  1. trance
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

trance

  1. inflection of tranzar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “trance”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Source: wiktionary.org