Other forms: discos
A disco is a dance venue or party where a DJ plays records. A school disco, go to the disco, disco lights.
The word is dated in both its senses, and the school disco is where most British people last used it seriously. As a style it names the sound of the late 1970s, which has never stopped being revived.
1noundiscoA dated word for a dance venue or party where a DJ plays records, tied to the glittery style of the 1970s.
“My parents met at a disco in 1978, dancing under a glitter ball.”
disco is a party.
A shortening of discotheque, from French discotheque, a record library.
French
discothèque
English, today
disco
From a shortening of discotheque, from French discothèque.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA