disco

1. 1.

   popular dance music (especially in the late 1970s); melodic with a regular bass beat; intended mainly for dancing at discotheques

   Synonymsdisco music

   Broaderpopular music
2. 2.

   a public dance hall for dancing to recorded popular music

   Synonymsdiscotheque

   Broaderballroom

1. 1.

   dance to disco music

   Broaderdance

Other forms of disco

plural

discoes·

past tense

discoed·

present participle

discoing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about disco

What does disco mean?

disco means "popular dance music (especially in the late 1970s); melodic with a regular bass beat; intended mainly for dancing at discotheques". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in disco?

disco has 2 syllables: dis-co. The stress falls on "dis". In IPA it is /ˈdɪskoʊ/.

What is another word for disco?

Close synonyms include disco music, discotheque. 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 disco a common word?

disco is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.