DISCO

disco, discotheque

(noun) a public dance hall for dancing to recorded popular music

disco, disco music

(noun) popular dance music (especially in the late 1970s); melodic with a regular bass beat; intended mainly for dancing at discotheques

disco

(verb) dance to disco music

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

disco (countable and uncountable, plural discos)

(countable, slightly, dated) Clipping of discotheque, a nightclub for dancing.

(uncountable) A genre of dance music that was popular in the 1970s, characterized by elements of soul music with a strong Latin-American beat and often accompanied by pulsating lights.

Synonyms

• (place for dancing): club, nightclub

Verb

disco (third-person singular simple present discos, present participle discoing, simple past and past participle discoed)

(intransitive) To dance disco-style dances.

(intransitive) To go to discotheques.

Anagrams

• sodic

Source: Wiktionary



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