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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