dance music

1. 1.

   a genre of popular music composed for ballroom dancing

   Synonymsdanceroom musicballroom music

   Broaderpopular music
2. 2.

   music to dance to

   Broadermusic

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Questions about dance music

What does dance music mean?

dance music means "a genre of popular music composed for ballroom dancing". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for dance music?

Close synonyms include danceroom music, ballroom music. 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 music a common word?

dance music is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.