Meaning

5 senses
  1. A standard ballroom dance in 4/4 time; or a social dance, the Argentine tango.

    Tango

    та́нгоtángo

    a ballroom dance of Latin-American origin

  2. A Spanish flamenco dance with different steps from the Argentine.

  3. A piece of music suited to such a dance.

  4. A dark orange colour shade; deep tangerine

  5. (US, slang)A target; an enemy.

    Tango down!

Examples

52 sentences
  1. Who taught you to tango?

    Хто тебе навчив танцювати танго? — deniko

    ruКто научил тебя танцевать танго? — odexed

  2. Could you please play a tango?

  3. Tom wants to learn to tango.

  4. Tom wanted to learn to tango.

  5. Tom wants to learn how to tango.

    ruТом хочет научиться танцевать танго. — marafon

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
ballroom dance:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
ballroom dance:

Origin

Borrowed from Rioplatense Spanish tango, probably from a Niger-Congo language (compare Ibi

Borrowed from Rioplatense Spanish tango, probably from a Niger-Congo language (compare Ibibio tamgu (“to dance”)).

From translingual Tango (representing the letter T), from English tango (see above).

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Forms

plural: tangos / tangoes
Singulartango
Pluraltangos / tangoes

regular

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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