dancing school
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1.7
- noun
- /ˈdænsɪŋ skuːl/
:
escuela de baile
- She enrolled in a dancing school to learn ballet and contemporary dance.
- go to dancing school
- start a dancing school
Examples
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- Cynthia was a dancing school dropout.
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She was like all the girls I knew in dancing school.
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- You must have learned it in dancing school.
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One of the girls from the dancing school.
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When my mother came home from work, I told her about the dancing school.
Fiction book (1992) -
I went to dancing school with Emily.
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Well, when we were children, you were the only boy who danced with me in dancing school.
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I now own a salsa dancing school, the largest maybe in North America.
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Forget photography, Armando, you should open a dancing school.
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They sent me to the finest schools, including dancing school.
Synonyms
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2.1
A school where people learn to dance
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a school where people are taught to dance' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'dancing' (activity of dancing) with 'school' (an institution for teaching). The noun‑combination pattern 'X school' (school for X) is common in English and across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer this meaning.
Etymology
The noun dancing school comes from the simple image of a room where people practice dancing and a teacher at a school shows them steps and moves. So, dancing school means 'a place where people are taught to dance'.