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dance music

dance music noun: music composed to accompany social dancing. Also the ellipsis of electronic dance music.

Noun

dance music (uncountable)

  1. Music composed to accompany social dancing.
    • From all sides her gift for playing the piano was insisted upon, and she had to consent. As very soon she had played the only pieces of dance music she could remember, she went on to play an air from a sonata by Mozart.1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter XII, in The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC
    • In the bar in which Strickland and Nichols sat a mechanical piano was loudly grinding out dance music.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XLVII, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC

Also used as

dance music is also the ellipsis of electronic dance music.

Questions about dance music

What does dance music mean?
Dance music means music composed to accompany social dancing.
What part of speech is dance music?
Dance music is a noun.

Words near dance music in the dictionary

  1. dance machines
  2. dance mat
  3. dance mats
  4. dance move
  5. dance moves
  6. dance music
  7. dance of death
  8. dance of the seven veils
  9. dance on a rope
  10. dance on nothing
  11. dance on someone's grave

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