disco

/ˈdɪskoʊ/

/ˈdɪskəʊ/

Other forms: discos; discoing; discoed

Disco is music with a heavy bass beat that’s fun to dance to. The heyday of disco was 1970s America, where people wore satin bell-bottoms and big Afros and went to nightclubs and did some serious disco dancing!

When you go to a disco, you can recreate some of the dance moves of the 1970s. If you need inspiration, check out the movie Saturday Night Fever and shake your hips under a giant disco ball. Disco is an American English invention from the 1960s, a shortened form of discotheque, a French word that means both "club for dancing" and also "record library." A DJ spins records, or discs, at the disco.

Definitions of disco

1. noun

   a public dance hall for dancing to recorded popular music
   synonyms: discotheque

   type of:

   ballroom, dance hall, dance palace

   large room used mainly for dancing
2. noun

   popular dance music (especially in the late 1970s); melodic with a regular bass beat; intended mainly for dancing at discotheques
   synonyms: disco music

   type of:

   popular music, popular music genre

   any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time)
3. verb

   dance to disco music
   type of:

   dance, trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe

   move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance