Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A nightclub that features dancing to recorded or sometimes live music and often has showy decor and elaborate lighting.
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- noun slightly dated A
nightclub where dancing takes place.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a public dance hall for dancing to recorded popular music
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The name of this music has been derived from the term discotheque, as this music was generally played at the nightclubs where people used to dance all night.
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The name of this music has been derived from the term discotheque, as this music was generally played at the nightclubs where people used to dance all night.
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To understand the depth of the cultural divide at work here, consider that most Americans under age seventy-five would find even the idea of pronouncing the entire word discotheque too time-consuming.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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To understand the depth of the cultural divide at work here, consider that most Americans under age seventy-five would find even the idea of pronouncing the entire word discotheque too time-consuming.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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According to Donald Clarke, author of the Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music, the modern use of the word disco originates from the French word "discotheque," which means "record library" in French.
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It was hosted in a room downstairs from the main dancehall at Rooftops on Sauchiehall Street, an establishment that still described itself as a 'discotheque' in those days.
A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2001
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Disco comes from the word "discotheque;" a term used to describe the nightclubs people went to during the 60s and 70s.
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The sun was shining for us that day so we got a boat out to an island where we docked for lunch and a snorkel before heading back to the mainland in the evening for the 'discotheque'.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009
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And over the postwar decades in which the discotheque has existed, and with the advent of file-sharing protocols, however piratical, exceedingly rare is that American who would take steps to inquire, say through a local library, whether and under which conditions certain recordings may be removed from archives for a listen.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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And over the postwar decades in which the discotheque has existed, and with the advent of file-sharing protocols, however piratical, exceedingly rare is that American who would take steps to inquire, say through a local library, whether and under which conditions certain recordings may be removed from archives for a listen.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
yarb commented on the word discotheque
Now is the winter of our discotheque...
June 13, 2008
dontcry commented on the word discotheque
*snort!* That's going to get me through tonight's PTA meeting. Thanks, yarb!
June 13, 2008
reesetee commented on the word discotheque
Perfect.
June 16, 2008