disco
n. C / Un. a type of dance music with a strong beat that was very popular in the 1970s. It also refers to a club or party where people go to dance to this music.
n. a genre of dance music characterized by a steady rhythmic beat and orchestral arrangements, or a venue dedicated to dancing to such music. Informal in register when referring to the venue; often used as a modifier for related cultural artifacts.
We spent the whole night dancing at the disco.
The local community center hosts a disco every Friday night for teenagers in the neighborhood.
While disco faced a cultural backlash in the late seventies, its rhythmic innovations laid the essential groundwork for the emergence of modern electronic dance music and house culture.
From a shortening of discotheque, from French discothèque.
Clipping of discovery.
Countable when referring to a specific event or venue; uncountable when referring to the musical genre.