dancehall

See also: dance-hall and dance hall

English

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Etymology

dance +‎ hall

Noun

dancehall (countable and uncountable, plural dancehalls)

  1. (countable) A public hall for dancing.
  2. (uncountable, music) A genre of Jamaican dance music derived from dub and reggae.
    • 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, Hamish Hamilton, page 271:
      It sounded Jamaican to me, a form of dancehall, and [...] I wandered over and watched the dancing.

Descendants
  • → Japanese: ダンスホール (dansuhōru)

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