disco
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2.7
- noun
- /ˈdɪskoʊ/
:
discoteca
- Spanish music plays really loud, the disco ball spins off blue lights on the walls and ceiling.
As we like growing up, there's more interest in discos, girls and beer.
- As we like growing up, there's more interest in discos, girls and beer.
- Darts, pool, maybe some food and then maybe daytime disco.
- Should we do a do a silent disco?
- Well, many moons ago I actually went to school in Newcastle and there was a disco coming up.
- I was doing clinics in China and there was some of the, a lot of the venues, for whatever reason, were discos.
- And then when I read that Imelda Marcos, the former first lady of the Philippines, loved going to discos.
- But also by that stage, she hadn't known other than electric cars as as her main form of that's what dad picked her up from the school disco in.
Examples
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So, with nowhere left to go, Tim and Eric headed to their favorite nightclub, Circus Disco, to drown their sorrows.
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I'll meet you at the parking lot of the disco, okay?
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Everybody into the disco room!
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The disco will open soon, but I have a quiet place for you for a while
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The first time I heard it was in the Boot, at the Friday disco.
Fiction book (2000) -
When she dropped me off to meet my friends at the disco where I'd flash the fake I.D.
Fiction book (1999) -
New bodies had replaced the old; a disco globe was spinning on its axis, spreading light across the room.
Fiction book (1998) -
I'm hooking up with some people at this funky place in downtown Detroit called Disco Inferno.
Fiction book (1999) -
On Saturday night, we are going to a popular disco that plays the latest dance hits.
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The disco was packed with people enjoying the incredible light show and music.
Synonyms
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1.2
A place with music and dancing where people go at night
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1.6
A place open late at night with music and dancing where people buy drinks
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2.9
A large place for dancing with live or recorded music
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7.3
A nightclub where people dance to recorded popular music
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3.4
A room or building where people gather to dance, often for Jamaican music
Compounds
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Morphology
disco = disc (semi-transparent) = disc + o
Built from 'disc' + colloquial '-o' (or clipped from 'discotheque'); the notion 'place for dancing to recorded music' is derivable with cultural knowledge of 'discotheque'.
Etymology
Disco comes from the French discotheque, which was a 'place' for disc 'record' music because disc means 'record' and -theque means 'place'. That's why a disco is a club where people go to dance to recorded music.