disco music
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1.9
- noun
- /ˈdɪskoʊ ˈmjuːzɪk/
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música disco
- At the party, everyone danced to the energetic rhythm of disco music all night long.
- play disco music
- disco music ruled
- so much disco music
So we also went to Buku festival there in New Orleans, and that's a electric disco, disco music event.
- So we also went to Buku festival there in New Orleans, and that's a electric disco, disco music event.
Examples
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We listened to this cassette of Italian disco music.
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Halfway through it went into disco music.
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They're playing disco music in there, man.
Fiction book (1999) -
You better take care of it, cos I can't study with this disco music.
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From another angle, the end of the 1970s saw the arrival of disco music in Colombia.
Academic text (1991) -
I do not wear gold or silver chains around my neck or wrists, nor do I dance to rock, rap, or disco music.
Fiction book (2002) -
Disco music reverberates in the corridor.
Fiction book (1991) -
In one scene, disco music blares in the courtyard, coaxing patients to dance.
Academic text (2017) -
Such scorn and derision, sadly, now seems as dated as pet rocks and disco music.
Blog text (32) -
In its highly commercialized diffusion, Latin American disco music discovered the potential for consumption among pre-adolescents.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
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3.5
A style of dance music from the 1970s with a steady bass beat
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1.4
Music with a strong beat that people dance to at parties
How Danceable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'disco' names a dance-music style and 'music' denotes organized sound, so together they plainly mean music in the disco style. This genre‑label + music pattern is cross‑linguistically common and non-idiomatic, so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand it.
Etymology
Disco music comes from disco, short for the French word 'discothèque', a dance club where people danced to recorded 'discs'. The picture of people dancing to loud records with a steady beat is why disco music means 'dance' music made for clubs today.