dancehall

See also: dance-hall and dance hall

English

Alternative forms

• dance hall, dance-hall

Etymology

dance +‎ hall

Noun

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.

Descendants

• → Japanese: ダンスホール (dansuhōru)

Translations

public hall for dancing

• Armenian: պարասրահ (hy) (parasrah)
• Azerbaijani: rəqs zalı
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 舞廳／舞厅 (zh) (wǔtīng)

• Czech: taneční sál m
• Dutch: danszaal (nl) m
• Finnish: tanssisali
• French: salle de danse (fr) f
• Georgian: საცეკვაო დარბაზი (saceḳvao darbazi)
• German: Tanzsaal (de) m
• Irish: halla damhsa m, halla rince m
• Italian: sala da ballo f, balera (it) f
• Jamaican Creole: daansaal, dansaal
• Japanese: ダンスホール (dansuhōru)
• Korean: 댄스홀 (daenseuhol)
• Maori: whare kanikani
• Persian: دانسینگ (fa) (dânsing)
• Polish: dansing (pl) m
• Portuguese: salão de dança m
• Romanian: sală de dans f
• Russian: танцева́льный зал m (tanceválʹnyj zal)
• Tagalog: bahay-sayawan

Anagrams

• challaned