dancehallとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• dance hall, dance-hall

語源

From dance +‎ hall.

名詞

dancehall (countable and uncountable, plural dancehalls)

1. (countable) A public hall for dancing.
   • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 125:

     Six years later there were barely any dancehalls to supervise—it was all glitzy discos attached to pubs.

2. (uncountable, music) A genre of Jamaican dance music derived from dub and reggae.
   • 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 271:

     It sounded Jamaican to me, a form of dancehall, and […] I wandered over and watched the dancing.

派生語

派生した語

• → Japanese: ダンスホール (dansuhōru)

アナグラム

• challaned

アナグラム

• challaned