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dancehall

noun

Etymology

From dance + hall.

  1. derived from *ḱel-✻
  2. inherited from *hallō✻
  3. inherited from *hallu✻
  4. inherited from heall
  5. inherited from halle
  6. compounded as dancehall — “dance + hall”

Definitions

  1. A public hall for dancing.

    • Six years later there were barely any dancehalls to supervise—it was all glitzy discos attached to pubs.

  2. 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA