discotheque
noun
[ ˈdɪskətɛk ]
• a club or party at which people dance to recorded pop music.
Origin:
1920s (in the sense ‘collection of records, record library’): from French discothèque, on the pattern of bibliothèque ‘library’.
disco
noun
• a club or party at which people dance to recorded pop music.
• "on Friday evenings, he often attended a disco with school friends"
• a style of pop music intended mainly for dancing to, typically soul-influenced and melodic with a regular bass beat, popular particularly in the late 1970s.
• "the music hops from one genre to another – electropop and post-punk, but also disco, hip-hop, and soul"
Origin:
1950s: abbreviation of discotheque.
