disco

«disco» in Mova's school dictionary: a party or event where people dance to recorded pop… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a disco, discos; disco, uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) A disco is a party or event where people dance to recorded pop music, often with coloured lights. tree →

2) A school disco is an evening dance party for pupils at school. tree →

3) Disco is a kind of dance music with a strong beat, popular long ago and still played at parties. tree →

sense 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 →
• We danced under the flashing disco lights. tree →
• Grandma loves old disco music. tree →
• A silver disco ball hung from the ceiling. tree →
• Tickets for the disco cost £2 each. tree →
• Lily was too shy to dance at her first disco. tree →

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».

In the corpora

• At the school disco a group laughs at Sam's dancing — which, to be fair, looks like a startled octopus.
• In Glasgow, Minnie's dad finds her a disco dress in a charity shop for £3.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «disco» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.