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 Definitions of trance  [æns, trɑns]  

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Definition of 'trance' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) trance
a half-conscious state, seemingly between sleeping and waking, in which ability to function voluntarily may be suspended, esp. a state produced by hypnosis or religious ecstasy.

2.  trance
a dazed or bewildered condition.

3.  trance
a state of complete mental absorption or deep musing.

4.  trance
a type of electronic disco music derived from techno and other rave styles, characterized by sounds that have a hypnotic or spiritual quality.

5. (v.t.) trance
to entrance; enrapture.

Etymology:  (1300–50; ME traunce < MF transe lit., passage (from life to death), der. of transir to go across < L trānsīre=trans-+īre to go)

Definition of 'trance' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) enchantment, spell, trance
a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation

2. (verb) trance
a state of mind in which consciousness is fragile and voluntary action is poor or missing; a state resembling deep sleep

3. (verb) capture, enamour, trance, catch, becharm, enamor, captivate, beguile, charm, fascinate, bewitch, entrance, enchant
attract; cause to be enamored
"She captured all the men's hearts"


Definition of 'trance' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) trance
a tedious journey

2. (noun) trance
a state in which the soul seems to have passed out of the body into another state of being, or to be rapt into visions; an ecstasy

3. (noun) trance
a condition, often simulating death, in which there is a total suspension of the power of voluntary movement, with abolition of all evidences of mental activity and the reduction to a minimum of all the vital functions so that the patient lies still and apparently unconscious of surrounding objects, while the pulsation of the heart and the breathing, although still present, are almost or altogether imperceptible

4. (verb) trance
to entrance

5. (verb) trance
to pass over or across; to traverse

6. (verb) trance
to pass; to travel


Translation of 'trance' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a sleep-like or half-concious state
The hypnotist put her into a trance.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: beswyming Arabic flag Arabic: غَيْبوبَه، غِشْيَه Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: унесеност
Brazilian flag Brazilian: transe Czech flag Czech: trans German flag German: die Trance
Danish flag Danish: trance Greek flag Greek: ύπνωση Spanish flag Spanish: trance
Estonian flag Estonian: transs Farsi flag Farsi: خلسه Finnish flag Finnish: transsi
French flag French: transe Hebrew flag Hebrew: טְרַנס Hindi flag Hindi: भाव समाधि
Croatian flag Croatian: trans Hungarian flag Hungarian: révület Indonesian flag Indonesian: keadaan setengah sadar
Icelandic flag Icelandic: leiðsla Italian flag Italian: trance Japanese flag Japanese: 夢うつつ
Korean flag Korean: 최면상태 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: transas Latvian flag Latvian: transs
Malay flag Malay: keadaan bersawai Dutch flag Dutch: trance Norwegian flag Norwegian: transe
Polish flag Polish: trans Persian flag Persian: خلسه Pashto flag Pashto: نیمه شعوری حالت
Portuguese flag Portuguese: transe Romanian flag Romanian: transă Russian flag Russian: транс
Slovak flag Slovak: polospánok; vytrženie, ex Slovenian flag Slovenian: trans Serbian flag Serbian: trans
Swedish flag Swedish: trans Thai flag Thai: การอยู่ในภวังค์ Turkish flag Turkish: kendinden geçme, trans
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 精神恍惚 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: транс Urdu flag Urdu: مدہوشي
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: trạng thái hôn mê Chinese flag Chinese: 精神恍惚

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