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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A lively dance originating in Bohemia.
2. 2
   a Bohemian dance with 3 steps and a hop in fast time wordnet
3. 3
   The music for this dance.
4. 4
   music performed for dancing the polka wordnet
5. 5
   A polka jacket.

Verb

1. 1
   To dance the polka. intransitive
2. 2
   dance a polka wordnet

Proper Noun

1. 1
   A surname.

Synonyms

All synonyms

dancehustlejigpolka jacket

Example

More examples

"Her skirt is yellow with polka dots."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Via French and German from Czech polka, variant of půlka (“half”) as in "half-step"; see půl (“half”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Czech, Slovak and Polish Polka.

Related phrases

horizontal polkapolka dotpolka-likepolka-mazurkapolish dancepolka jacket

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.