trance

Meanings

1. A dazed or unconscious condition.
2. A state of awareness, concentration, or focus that filters experience and information (for example, a state of meditation or possession by some being).
3. A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention; particularly one induced by hypnosis.
4. Ellipsis of trance music (“genre of electronic dance music”).

1. To (cause to) be in a trance; to entrance.
2. To create in or via a trance.

1. To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.
2. To pass across or over; to traverse.
3. To travel quickly over a long distance.

1. A tedious journey.

1. France.

Etymology

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”).