• (RP) IPA: /tɹɑːns/
• (GA) IPA: /tɹæns/

trance

1. (countable) A dazed#Adjective|dazed or unconscious condition#Noun|condition.
2. (countable) A state#Noun|state of awareness, concentration, and/or focus#Noun|focus that filter#Verb|filters experience#Noun|experience and information (for example, a state of meditation or possession by some being#Noun|being).
   • Bible, Acts x. 10

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

   • My soul was ravished quite as in a trance.

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

• German: Trance
• Portuguese: desmaio
• Russian: транс

• German: Trance
• Portuguese: tontura, transe
• Russian: транс

• German: Trance
• Portuguese: hipnose
• Russian: транс

• French: trance
• German: Trance
• Italian: trance
• Portuguese: trance
• Russian: транс
• Spanish: trance

trance (trances, present participle trancing; past and past participle tranced)

1. (ambitransitive) To (cause to) be in a trance#Noun|trance; to entrance#Verb|entrance.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [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 (trances, present participle trancing; past and past participle tranced)

1. (obsolete, outside, Britain, dialectal, intransitive) To walk#Verb|walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp#Verb|tramp, to trudge#Verb|trudge.

   Synonyms: trounce

2. (obsolete, outside, Britain, dialectal, intransitive) To pass#Verb|pass across or over; to traverse#Verb|traverse.

   Synonyms: trounce

   • 1626 January 22 (licensing date)​, John Fletcher [et al.], “The Faire Maide of the Inne”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: Printed for Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, OCLC 3083972 ↗, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals):

     Trance the world o'er.

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Mariana

     When thickest dark did trance the sky.

3. (obsolete, outside, Britain, dialectal, intransitive) To travel#Verb|travel quickly over a long#Adjective|long distance#Noun|distance.

   Synonyms: trounce

trance (plural trances)

1. (obsolete, outside, Britain, dialectal) A tedious journey#Noun|journey.

   Synonyms: trounce