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# disco

noun (a disco, discos; disco, uncountable)

«disco» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A disco is a party or event where people dance to recorded pop music, often with coloured lights. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disco/#m1)
2. A school disco is an evening dance party for pupils at school. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disco/#m2)
3. Disco is a kind of dance music with a strong beat, popular long ago and still played at parties. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disco/#m3)

### In the lessons

In everyday children's life, the school disco, a birthday disco or a disco at a holiday camp are exciting events. In stories it shows a party atmosphere. Phrases: «school disco», «disco lights», «disco ball», «go to a disco», «disco music».

### Examples

- The school disco is on Friday night. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disco/#x1)
- We danced under the flashing disco lights. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disco/#x2)
- Grandma loves old disco music. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disco/#x3)
- A silver disco ball hung from the ceiling. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disco/#x4)
- Tickets for the disco cost £2 each. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disco/#x5)
- Lily was too shy to dance at her first disco. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disco/#x6)

### Note

Countable for the event (plural discos), uncountable for the music style. Short for «discotheque». In the USA a school disco is more often called «a school dance».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «disco» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disco/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«disco» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/disco.html) on Mova free.