discotheque

See also: discothèque

English

Alternative forms

• discothèque

Etymology

Etymology tree

French disco-

French -thèque

French discothèquebor.

English discotheque

Borrowed from French discothèque (“record library; discotheque”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪskəˌtɛk/, /ˈdɪskoʊˌtɛk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

discotheque (plural discotheques)

1. (dated) A nightclub where dancing takes place.

   Synonym: disco

   • 1969, the editors of Time-Life Books, “New Orleans”, in The USA: A Visitor’s Handbook, Amsterdam: Time-Life Books, →LCCN, →OCLC, chapter 2 (Famous Cities), page 160:

     By night, it must be admitted, the place is something of a horror, with its endless repetitive bars and strip-joints and hot-doggeries and battalions of barkers competing with the howl of the discotheques.

Derived terms

• disco
• salsatheque

Translations

nightclub

• Arabic: دِيسْكُو m (dīskū)
• Armenian: դիսկոտեկ (hy) (diskotek)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 迪斯科 (zh) (dísīkē), 迪廳 / 迪厅 (zh) (dítīng), 迪斯科舞廳 / 迪斯科舞厅 (dísīkē wǔtīng)

• Czech: diskotéka (cs) f
• Dutch: discotheek (nl) f
• Estonian: diskoteek
• Finnish: diskoteekki (fi), disko (fi)
• French: discothèque (fr) f
• Galician: discoteca (gl) f
• Georgian: დისკოთეკა (disḳoteḳa)
• German: Diskothek (de) f, Disko (de) f, Disco (de) f, Tanzlokal (de) n (more formal)
• Greek: ντισκοτέκ (el) f (ntiskoték), δισκοθήκη (el) f (diskothíki)
• Hebrew: דיסקוטק (he) m (disqot'eq)
• Hungarian: diszkó (hu)
• Icelandic: diskótek (is) n
• Italian: discoteca (it) f
• Japanese: ディスコティック (ja) (disukotikku)
• Kazakh: дискотека (dıyskoteka)
• Korean: 디스코테크 (diseukotekeu), 디스코텍 (diseukotek)
• Luxembourgish: Diskothéik f
• Norwegian: diskotek n
• Polish: dyskoteka (pl) f
• Portuguese: discoteca (pt)
• Quechua: tusuna wasi
• Romanian: discotecă (ro)
• Russian: дискоте́ка (ru) f (diskotéka)
• Serbo-Croatian: diskoteka (sh) f
• Spanish: discoteca (es) f
• Swahili: disko (sw)
• Swedish: diskotek (sv) n
• Ukrainian: дискоте́ка f (dyskotéka)
• Yiddish: דיסקאָטעק f (diskotek)