rock band
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2.1
- noun
- /rɑk bænd/
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banda de rock
- The local rock band played every weekend at the downtown club.
- play in a rock band
- punk rock band
- a local rock band
but it's even harder to become an iconic rock band or hip hop band.
- but it's even harder to become an iconic rock band or hip hop band.
- I spent seven years as the lead singer of a rock band at CLA.
- Julian, come on, give us some obscure Japanese pop rock band.
- So I hooked up with her and we had everything to be in a rock band except talent and instruments, right?
- And even some of these mega churches that act like they're cool where their pastor wears jeans and designer tennis shoes and they have a cool rock band.
- You're going on a world tour and you're in a you're in a glam band, a glam rock band and you're going to Detroit and you're going to Saskatchewan and you're going to Germany.
Examples
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Let me tell you what it's like to manage a rock band.
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The pair disagrees about nearly everything, including fashion, men, and Lindsay's passion to join a rock band.
Academic text (2009) -
I found a new young rock band that has given me my youth again.
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Mitchell also played with a rock band during his high school years.
Academic text (2015) -
But I think at some point Coldplay stopped being a rock band, right?
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He was in a rock band that got hot for five minutes.
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[woman] You started off as four friends just playing together, and you became the biggest rock band in the world.
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I spent seven years as the lead singer of a rock band at CLA.
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If you were in an angsty teen rock band, what would your band have been called?
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The Alan Parsons Project was a progressive rock band from 1982.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
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1.0
A group of musicians who play together
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2.1
A band of musicians who play rock music
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2.3
People who play music together for a crowd
How Loud
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'rock' names the musical genre and 'band' denotes an ensemble, so together they straightforwardly mean a musical group that plays rock. This noun-noun compound follows a common, cross-linguistic pattern (e.g. Spanish 'banda de rock', French 'groupe de rock') and would be clear to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Rock band The noun rock band comes from rock, the loud, energetic music that makes people 'rock' or move, and band, meaning a 'group' of musicians. So, rock band means 'a group that plays rock music'.