dance orchestra

1. 1.

   a group of musicians playing popular music for dancing

   Synonymsdance bandband

   Broadermusical organization

   Narrowerbig bandjazz bandrock groupsteel band

Questions about dance orchestra

What does dance orchestra mean?

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

What is another word for dance orchestra?

Close synonyms include dance band, band. 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 orchestra a common word?

dance orchestra 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.