cabaret

UK/kæbəˈɹeɪ/US/kæbəˈɹeɪ/

nounB2+Common in everyday speech and writing · #5,576 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: cabarets

Cabaret is a series of acts performed at a club while people dine. A cabaret act.

The closeness of the audience is what defines it, since nothing can be hidden at that distance. Cabaret in Berlin between the wars became political, which is why the word still carries an edge.

Definitions of cabaret

1nouncabaretA series of acts performed at a club while people dine.B2+
“The cabaret ran from eleven until nearly three.”

cabaret is a performance.

Where it comes from

French
cabaret
English, today
cabaret

Borrowed from French cabaret.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

cabaret in the wild

The genre traces its roots to 1930s Weimar Republic experimental cabaret of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, and their influence upon 1960s rock bands including the Doors.
Dark cabaret
In the 1970s, the dark cabaret genre began to emerge with Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel's The Human Menagerie and Nico's The End....
Dark cabaret
Jollees was a live music and cabaret venue in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom.
Jollees
The original venue was opened in October 1973 and was the largest capacity cabaret venue in the UK in the 1970s.
Jollees

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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