trance

See also: Trance and trancé

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English traunce, from Old French transe (“fear of coming evil", "passage from life to death”), from transir (“to be numb with fear", "die", "pass on”), from Latin trānseō (“to cross over”)

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /tɹæns/
  • Rhymes: -æns

Noun

trance (plural trances)

  1. A dazed or unconscious condition.
  2. (consciousness) A state of concentration, awareness and/or focus that filters information and experience; e.g. meditation, possession, etc.
    • Bible, Acts x. 10
      And he became very hungry, and would have eaten; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance.
    • Spenser
      My soul was ravished quite as in a trance.
  3. (psychology) A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention.
  4. (psychology) The previous state induced by hypnosis.
  5. (uncountable, music) Trance music, a genre of electronic dance music.
  6. (obsolete) A tedious journey.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

Verb

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

  1. To entrance.
    • Shakespeare
      And there I left him tranced.
  2. (obsolete) To pass over or across; to traverse.
    • Beaumont and Fletcher
      Trance the world over.
    • Tennyson
      When thickest dark did trance the sky.
  3. (obsolete) To pass; to travel.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for trance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English trance.

Pronunciation

Noun

trance f (uncountable)

  1. trance (music genre)

Anagrams

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English trance.

Noun

trance f (invariable)

  1. trance (music genre)

Anagrams

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English trance.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtrɛ̃s/

Noun

trance m inan

  1. trance (music genre)

Declension

References

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

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English trance.

Noun

trance m (uncountable)

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

Etymology 2

Verb

trance

  1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of trançar
  2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of trançar
  3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of trançar
  4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of trançar

Etymology 3

Noun

trance m (plural trances)

  1. Obsolete form of transe.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English trance.

Noun

trance m (plural trances)

  1. trance
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