Dancehall
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Dancehall is a noun meaning (countable) A public hall for dancing.
Meaning
(countable) A public hall for dancing.
More Meanings
- (uncountable, music) A genre of Jamaican dance music derived from dub and reggae.
Example Sentences
It sounded Jamaican to me, a form of dancehall, and […] I wandered over and watched the dancing.
Six years later there were barely any dancehalls to supervise—it was all glitzy discos attached to pubs.
Word Forms
- dancehalls
- dance hall
- dance-hall
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dance hall, dancery, dance, disco, discotheque, dancefest.
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