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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 fly
  2. dance game
  3. dance games
  4. dance gypsies
  5. dance gypsy
  6. dance hall
  7. dance halls
  8. dance hostess
  9. dance hostesses
  10. dance machine
  11. dance machines

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