A disco is a place or event at which people dance to pop music.
Fridays and Saturdays are regular disco nights.
Synonyms: dance, ball, hop [informal], knees-up [British, informal] More Synonyms of disco
disco in British English
(ˈdɪskəʊ)
nounWord forms: plural-cos
1.
a.
an occasion at which typically young people dance to amplified pop records, usually compered by a disc jockey and featuring special lighting effects
b.
(as modifier)
disco dancing
2.
a nightclub or other public place where such dances take place
3.
mobile equipment, usually accompanied by a disc jockey who operates it, for providing music for a disco
4.
a.
a type of dance music designed to be played in discos, with a solid thump on each beat
b.
(as modifier)
a disco record
Word origin
C20: shortened from discotheque
disco in American English
(ˈdɪskoʊ)
US
noun
1. Word forms: pluralˈdiscos
a nightclub or public place for dancing to recorded music played by a disc jockey
2.
a kind of popular dance music with elements of soul music, a strong Latin American beat, and simple and repetitious lyrics, usually accompanied by pulsating lights, etc.
adjective
3.
of discos, the music played there, etc.
verb intransitiveWord forms: ˈdiscoed or ˈdiscoing
4.
to dance at a disco
Word origin
shortened < discothèque
disco- in American English
(ˈdɪskoʊ; ˈdɪskə)
1.
disk-shaped; discoid
2.
phonograph record
discography
Word origin
< L discus, discus
Examples of 'disco' in a sentence
disco
What are your top tips for dancing well at a school disco?
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
They want him to steer their music in more of a disco and dance direction.
The Sun (2010)
Dancers jammed a floor of flashing disco lights.
Aidan Hartley THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War (2003)
With his savings he bought mobile disco equipment and began entertaining at weddings and youth clubs.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Should they pump disco music through their galleries?
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
What are your top school disco tips?
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
But his life changed two years ago when he learned to disco dance.
The Sun (2010)
Guests will then party to disco music.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Clubs are springing up to play once derided disco music.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Stuck for any exciting moves at the school disco?
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Punk and disco hadn't taken off at that time.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
When we're not using the disco lights.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
As preposterous ideas go, a rave on a plane takes the disco biscuit.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Until the disco lights on the ice kick in, that is.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
A disco with two dance floors and great laser effects.
Delaforce, Patrick Collins Traveller-Tuscany and Florence (1993)
I don't like discos and nightclubs.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
I've put a massive sound system in it so that it's like a mobile disco.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Word lists with
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In other languages
disco
British English: disco /ˈdɪskəʊ/ NOUN
A disco is a place or event where people dance to pop music.
Fridays and Saturdays are regular disco nights.
American English: disco
Arabic: ديسكو
Brazilian Portuguese: discoteca
Chinese: 迪斯科
Croatian: disko
Czech: diskotéka
Danish: diskotek
Dutch: disco
European Spanish: discoteca
Finnish: disko
French: boîte de nuit
German: Disco
Greek: ντίσκο
Italian: discoteca
Japanese: ディスコ
Korean: 디스코
Norwegian: diskotek
Polish: dyskoteka
European Portuguese: discoteca
Romanian: discotecă
Russian: диско
Latin American Spanish: discoteca
Swedish: disco
Thai: ดิสโก้
Turkish: disko
Ukrainian: дискотека
Vietnamese: điệu nhảy disco
Chinese translation of 'disco'
disco
(ˈdɪskəu)
n
(= nightclub) 迪斯科舞厅(廳) (dísikē wǔtīng)
(= event) 迪斯科 (dísikē)
(noun)
Definition
an occasion at which people dance to amplified pop records
The youth club holds a disco every Friday night.
Synonyms
dance
She often went to dances and parties in the village.