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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disco/#m1)

2) A school disco is an evening dance party for pupils at school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disco/#m2)

3) Disco is a kind of dance music with a strong beat, popular long ago and still played at parties. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disco/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disco/#x1)
- We danced under the flashing disco lights. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disco/#x2)
- Grandma loves old disco music. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disco/#x3)
- A silver disco ball hung from the ceiling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disco/#x4)
- Tickets for the disco cost £2 each. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disco/#x5)
- Lily was too shy to dance at her first disco. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disco/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/18/)
- [In Glasgow, Minnie's dad finds her a disco dress in a charity shop for £3.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/487-money-is-tight-free-meals-and-second-hand-uniform/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «disco» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disco/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.