DISCO
What does "DISCO" mean?
A style of dance music with a steady four-on-the-floor beat, or the nightclub where it is played.
Meanings
- A genre of dance music popular in the 1970s, marked by a steady pulse, lush strings, and a four-on-the-floor beat. The radio station devotes Saturday nights entirely to classic disco.
- A nightclub or party where people dance to recorded popular music. They danced until the disco closed at three in the morning. informal
- To dance to disco music. Grandpa still loves to disco at family weddings. informal
Did you know?
- On July 12, 1979, a Chicago promotion called Disco Demolition Night detonated a crate of disco records between two baseball games; the field damage and crowd riot forced the White Sox to forfeit the second game.
Word origin
Shortened from 'discotheque', from French 'discothèque' ('record library'), modeled on 'bibliothèque' ('library') with Greek 'diskos' ('disc') as the first element.
Remember it
DISCO hides a DISC - the spinning record the whole genre was built on.
A little poem
A mirror ball unscrews the dark
into a thousand turning coins-
we spend them all before the lights.
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Wordplay
- I used to hate disco, but the genre really grew on me - now I can't stop boogieing down to its roots.
What it teaches
A beat that never stops asks nothing of you but to keep moving - which is sometimes exactly enough.
Quick facts
What does DISCO mean?
A style of dance music with a steady four-on-the-floor beat, or the nightclub where it is played.
Is DISCO a valid word?
Yes — DISCO is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is DISCO?
DISCO has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does DISCO come from?
Shortened from 'discotheque', from French 'discothèque' ('record library'), modeled on 'bibliothèque' ('library') with Greek 'diskos' ('disc') as the first element.
What can DISCO teach us?
A beat that never stops asks nothing of you but to keep moving - which is sometimes exactly enough.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.