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dance-hall

dance-hall is the alternative form of dancehall.

Meaning of dancehall

Noun

dancehall (countable and uncountable, plural dancehalls)

  1. (countable) A public hall for dancing.
    • Six years later there were barely any dancehalls to supervise—it was all glitzy discos attached to pubs.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 125
  2. (uncountable) A genre of Jamaican dance music derived from dub and reggae.
    • It sounded Jamaican to me, a form of dancehall, and […] I wandered over and watched the dancing.2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 271

Forms of dance-hall

pluraldance-halls

Questions about dance-hall

What is dance-hall the alternative form of?
Dance-hall is the alternative form of dancehall.

Words near dance-hall in the dictionary

  1. dance-cards
  2. dance-drama
  3. dance-dramas
  4. dance-goer
  5. dance-goers
  6. dance-hall
  7. dance-halls
  8. dance-happy
  9. dance-off
  10. dance-offs
  11. dance-pop

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dance-hall (page history and authors); dancehall (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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