Definition of Disco

1. Noun. Popular dance music (especially in the late 1970s); melodic with a regular bass beat; intended mainly for dancing at discotheques.

Exact synonyms: Disco Music
Generic synonyms: Popular Music, Popular Music Genre

2. Verb. Dance to disco music.

3. Noun. A public dance hall for dancing to recorded popular music.
Exact synonyms: Discotheque
Generic synonyms: Ballroom, Dance Hall, Dance Palace

Definition of Disco

1. Noun. (countable slightly dated) A short form of '''discotheque''', a place for dancing. ¹

2. Noun. A type of music popular in discotheques. ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive) To dance disco-style dances. ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive) To go to discotheques. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Disco

1. to dance at a discotheque [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disco

disclosing solution
disclost
disclosure
disclosures
discloud
disclouded
disclout
disclouted
disclouting
disclouts
disclude
discluded
discludes
discluding
disclusion
disco (current term)
disco-
disco ball
disco biscuit
disco biscuits
disco sticks
discoast
discoasted
discoasting
discoasts
discoblastic
discoblastula
discoboli

Literary usage of Disco

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Catholicon Anglicum: An English-Latin Wordbook, Dated 1483 by Sidney John Hervon Herrtage (1882)
"... Ц ' Rex sedet in disco tendens gua brachia disco, In disco disco ... mea dogmata disco '. ..."

2. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society by Linnean Society of London (1857)
"disco. 47. Vaccinium uliginosum, L. Hal. disco and Pond's Bay. 48. Azalea procumbens, L. Sab. Whale Fish Island. 49. Pyrola rotundifolia, Z. Hab. disco and ..."

3. Jamaica by Paris Permenter, John Bigley (2000)
"disco HEDONISM II Norman Manley Boulevard, = 876-957-5200 There's no ... The disco features an incredible light and sound system and a rotating theme. ..."

4. Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage, and of a by John Ross (1835)
"disco Island—Enter on the first of August—Reach our furthest intended point ... We then shaped our course for disco island, and thus were gradually carried ..."

5. Narrative of a Voyage to the Polar Sea During 1875-6 in H.M. Ships 'Alert by George Strong Nares, Henry Wemyss Feilden (1878)
"At disco I was much pleased to meet Herr In- spektor Krarup Smith, the governor of North Greenland. Nothing could be kinder or more courteous than his ..."

6. Nature by Norman Lockyer, Nature Publishing Group (1875)
"Two analyses have been made of the coals from disco, but whether of Cretaceous or Miocene age I do not know ; one by Prof. Fyfe,*of Aberdeen, the other by ..."

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