Definition

1. Noun:
   • A genre of popular dance music: Disco music is a style of popular music primarily intended for dancing, characterized by a strong, steady four-on-the-floor bass drum beat, melodic lines, and often lush orchestral arrangements. It was most prominent in the late 1970s and associated with discotheques.

Examples of Usage

• Noun:
  • The club was filled with the sound of classic disco music.
  • Disco music, with its distinctive bass beat, dominated the charts in the late 70s.

Advanced Usage

• "The disco music era": Refers to the period, roughly the mid-1970s to early 1980s, when this genre was most popular.
  • Fashion from the disco music era is making a comeback.

Variants and Related Words

• Disco (n): Often used as a shortened, informal form of "disco music" or to refer to the genre, the dance style, or the venue (discotheque).
  • Let's listen to some disco.
• Discotheque (n): A nightclub for dancing to recorded popular music, the venue for which disco music is named.
• Disco beat (n): The characteristic rhythmic pattern of disco music.

Synonyms

• Dance music: A broader category of music created specifically for dancing, which includes disco.
• Funk (n): A related genre that influenced and sometimes overlapped with disco, emphasizing rhythm and groove.

Related Phrases

• "To disco" (verb, informal): To dance to disco music.
  • They loved to disco all night long.

Noun

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