trance

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”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɹɑːns/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːns

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /tɹæns/
  • Rhymes: -æns

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).
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 10:10:

     And he became very hungry, and would have eaten; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance.

   • 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet XXXIX”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC:

     My soul was ravished quite as in a trance.

3. (countable, psychology) A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention; particularly one induced by hypnosis.
4. (uncountable, music) Ellipsis of trance music (“genre of electronic dance music”).

• traunce (obsolete)

• → French: trance

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

1. (ambitransitive) To (cause to) be in a trance; to entrance.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:

     And there I left him tranced.

2. (transitive, rare) To create in or via a trance.
   • 2014, Geoffrey Benjamin, Temiar Religion, 1964-2012, page 64:

     The Horned Toad (kɛŋkak) tranced the rivers into being. A bakɔh bird tranced the mountains. The Scrub Bulbul (ˀɛsˀããs) drilled fire into existence with its beak. And, finally, the Bronzed Black Drongo (tɛrhɛɛh) tranced the year […]

   • 1995, Sue Jennings, Kevin Jennings, Theatre, Ritual, and Transformation: The Senoi Temiars, page 111:

     What is interesting for us here is that Chingkai and her familiars dreamed and tranced the Temiar world into being. […]

• trance out

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).^[1] The noun is probably derived from the 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

   • 1626 February 1 (licensing date), John Fletcher [et al.], “The Faire Maide of the Inne”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     Trance the world o'er.

   • 1830 June, Alfred Tennyson, “Mariana”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, stanza II, page 11:

     After the flitting of the bats, / When thickest dark did trance the sky, / She drew the casement-curtain by, / And glanced athwart the glooming flats.

3. (obsolete outside British, dialectal, intransitive) To travel quickly over a long distance.

   Synonym: (dialectal) trounce

trance (plural trances)

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

   Synonym: (dialectal) trounce

   • 1824, Sir Walter Scott, Redgauntlet:

     So saying, he led the way out through halls and trances that were weel kend to my gudesire, and into the auld oak parlour; […]

• “trance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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

Borrowed from English trance.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtræns/, [ˈt̪ræns̠]
• IPA^(key): /ˈtrɑnse/, [ˈt̪rɑ̝ns̠e̞]
• Rhymes: -æns

trance

1. trance (genre of electronic dance music)

• “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 3 July 2023

Borrowed from English trance.

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

trance f (uncountable)

1. trance (music genre)

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

Borrowed from English trance.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrans/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ans

trance f (invariable)

1. trance (music genre)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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

trance

1. plural of trancia

• Trenca, c'entra, cantre, centra

trance

1. alternative form of traunce

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

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

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

1. (pre-1984) alternative form of transe

Borrowed from English trance.

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

trance m inan

1. trance music

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

• trance in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Hyphenation: tran‧ce

Borrowed from English trance.

trance m (uncountable)

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

trance

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

trance m (plural trances)

1. obsolete form of transe

Borrowed from English trance.

trance m (plural trances)

1. trance

trance

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

• “trance”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024