Dictionary

dancehall en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈdɑːnsˌhɔːl/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From dance + hall.

Meanings

1. (countable) A public hall for dancing.
   • Six years later there were barely any dancehalls to supervise—it was all glitzy discos attached to pubs. 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 125:
2. (uncountable) 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. 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 271:

Forms

Deriveds

taxi dance hall

Descendants

ダンスホール

Translations (38)

ro sală de dans (public hall for dancing) · ko 댄스홀 (public hall for dancing) · tr dans salonu (public hall for dancing) · jam daansaal (public hall for dancing) · fi tanssisali (public hall for dancing) · pt salão de dança (public hall for dancing) · ga halla damhsa (public hall for dancing) · mk танцувачка сала (public hall for dancing) · cs taneční sál (public hall for dancing) · fa-ira سالُنِ رَقْص (public hall for dancing) · ga halla rince (public hall for dancing) · pl sala taneczna (public hall for dancing) · ka საცეკვაო დარბაზი (public hall for dancing) · it sala da ballo (public hall for dancing) · nl danszaal (public hall for dancing) · ja 舞踏場 (public hall for dancing) · pl dansing (public hall for dancing) · az rəqs salonu (public hall for dancing) · fa-ira دانْسینْگ (public hall for dancing) · ru танцева́льный зал (public hall for dancing) · ja 踊り場 (public hall for dancing) · de Tanzsaal (public hall for dancing) · az rəqs zalı (public hall for dancing) · bg та́нцова за́ла (public hall for dancing) · fr salle de danse (public hall for dancing) · mk дансинг (public hall for dancing) · ru да́нсинг (public hall for dancing) · bg да́нсинг (public hall for dancing) · tl bahay-sayawan (public hall for dancing) · cmn 舞廳 /舞厅 (public hall for dancing) · ja ダンスホール (public hall for dancing) · ar قَاعَةُ رَقْص (public hall for dancing) · it balera (public hall for dancing) · ko 무도장 (public hall for dancing) · cmn 舞蹈場 /舞蹈场 (public hall for dancing) · hy պարասրահ (public hall for dancing) · mi whare kanikani (public hall for dancing) · jam dansaal (public hall for dancing)