trance
(noun) a state of mind in which consciousness is fragile and voluntary action is poor or missing; a state resembling deep sleep
enchantment, spell, trance
(noun) a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation
capture, enamour, trance, catch, becharm, enamor, captivate, beguile, charm, fascinate, bewitch, entrance, enchant
(verb) attract; cause to be enamored; “She captured all the men’s hearts”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
trance (countable and uncountable, plural trances)
(countable) A dazed or unconscious condition.
(countable) A state of awareness, concentration, and/or focus that filters experience and information (for example, a state of meditation or possession by some being).
(countable, psychology) A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention; particularly one induced by hypnosis.
(uncountable, music genre) Short for trance music.
trance (third-person singular simple present trances, present participle trancing, simple past and past participle tranced)
(ambitransitive) To (cause to) be in a trance; to entrance.
(transitive, rare) To create in or via a trance.
trance (third-person singular simple present trances, present participle trancing, simple past and past participle tranced)
(obsolete, outside, Britain, dialectal, intransitive) To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.
Synonym: trounce (dialectal)
(obsolete, outside, Britain, dialectal, intransitive) To pass across or over; to traverse.
Synonym: trounce (dialectal)
(obsolete, outside, Britain, dialectal, intransitive) To travel quickly over a long distance.
Synonym: trounce (dialectal)
trance (plural trances)
(obsolete, outside, Britain, dialectal) A tedious journey.
Synonym: trounce (dialectal)
• Canter, Cretan, canter, carnet, centra, creant, nectar, recant, tanrec
Source: Wiktionary
Trance, n. Etym: [F. transe fright, in OF. also, trance or swoon, fr. transir to chill, benumb, to be chilled, to shiver, OF. also, to die, L. transire to pass over, go over, pass away, cease; trans across, over + ire to go; cf. L. transitus a passing over. See Issue, and cf. Transit.]
1. A tedious journey. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
2. 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. And he became very hungry, and would have eaten; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance. Acts. x. 10. My soul was ravished quite as in a trance. Spenser.
3. (Med.)
Definition: 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. He fell down in a trance. Chaucer.
Trance, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tranced; p. pr. & vb. n. Trancing.]
1. To entrance. And three I left him tranced. Shak.
2. To pass over or across; to traverse. [Poetic] Trance the world over. Beau. & Fl. When thickest dark did trance the sky. Tennyson.
Trance, v. i.
Definition: To pass; to travel. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
9 May 2025
(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
