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-step

-step suffix: denoting a genre of electronic dance music, especially one influenced by drum and bass.

Suffix

-step

  1. Denoting a genre of electronic dance music, especially one influenced by drum and bass.
    • dub + -step → dubstep
    • drum + -step → drumstep

Origin of -step

Back-formation from hardstep (“a subgenre of drum and bass music characterised by a gritty production style and urban feel”), which emerged around 1994.

Questions about -step

What does -step mean?
-step means denoting a genre of electronic dance music, especially one influenced by drum and bass.
What part of speech is -step?
-step is a suffix.

Words near -step in the dictionary

  1. -static
  2. -statin
  3. -stats
  4. -stein
  5. -steine
  6. -step
  7. -ster
  8. -steric
  9. -steride
  10. -sterone
  11. -sters

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: -step (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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