Highlife
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Highlife is a noun meaning (music, countable) A work or performance in this style.
Meaning
(music, countable) A work or performance in this style.
More Meanings
- (music, uncountable) A genre of music that originated in Ghana in the early 20th century, blending elements of traditional Akan music with Western instruments and ideas.
Example Sentences
Then he left the stage and listened to us playing highlifes.
Several of the city's most prominent ensembles started to incorporate foreign rock 'n' roll numbers into their existing repertories of ballroom, calypsos, and highlifes.
Anwar took the broom away from the Congolese cleaner – whose name I did not know, whose name no one ever thought to ask – and made her dance with him, to some highlife he had going on the transistor radio he carried everywhere.
Word Forms
- highlifes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include hiplife, hyphy, hi-fi, hifi, highland, hiphop.
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