dance band

Questions about dance band

What does dance band mean?

dance band means "a group of musicians playing popular music for dancing".

What is another word for dance band?

Close synonyms include band, dance orchestra. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dance band a common word?

dance band is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.