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dancehalls

dancehalls is the plural 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

Questions about dancehalls

What is dancehalls the plural of?
Dancehalls is the plural of dancehall.

Words near dancehalls in the dictionary

  1. dancefloors
  2. dancegoer
  3. dancegoers
  4. dancegoing
  5. dancehall
  6. dancehalls
  7. Dancel
  8. danceless
  9. dancelessness
  10. dancelike
  11. danceline

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