dancehall

• dance hall, dance-hall

From dance +‎ hall.

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.

• → Japanese: ダンスホール (dansuhōru)

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