breakdance - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

• break-dance, break dance

From break +‎ dance, in reference to the instrumental break sections of music.

breakdance (countable and uncountable, plural breakdances)

1. The art, or an instance, of breakdancing.

breakdance (third-person singular simple present breakdances, present participle breakdancing, simple past and past participle breakdanced)

1. (intransitive) To dance in this style.

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from breakdance.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbrɛaɡdant͡sɛ]

breakdance m inan

1. (dance) breakdancing

Indeclinable.

• “breakdance”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
• “breakdance” in Akademický slovník současné češtiny, 2012-, slovnikcestiny.cz

• (France) IPA^(key): /bʁɛk.dɛns/
• (Belgium) IPA^(key): /bʁek.dɛns/

breakdance m (plural breakdances)

1. breakdancing (style of dance)

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from breakdance.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrɛɡ.dɛns/, /ˈbrɛjɡ.dɛns/, /ˈbrɛjɡ.dans/
• Rhymes: -ɛɡdɛns, -ɛjɡdɛns, -ɛjɡdans
• Syllabification: break‧dance

breakdance m inan (indeclinable, related adjective breakdance'owy or breakdansowy)

1. (dance) breakdancing (urban style of acrobatic street dance that originated in the hip hop culture of New York City in the late 20th century)

   Synonyms: break, taniec połamaniec

   Hypernym: taniec

or

Indeclinable.

• breakdance in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• breakdance in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• breakdance in PWN's encyclopedia

Unadapted borrowing from English breakdance.

breakdance m (uncountable)

1. breakdancing (style of dance)

   Synonym: break

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from breakdance.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbrejkɟens]

breakdance m

1. (dance) breakdancing

• “breakdance”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

• brejkdens

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from breakdance.

• IPA^(key): /brɛ̂jɡdɛ̂ns/

breakdance m

1. (dance) breakdancing

• “breakdance”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

breakdance m (plural breakdances)

1. breakdance; breakdancing