dancehall

See also: dance-hall and dance hall

English

dance +‎ hall

dancehall (countable and uncountable, plural dancehalls)

(countable) A public hall for dancing.
- 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 125:
  Six years later there were barely any dancehalls to supervise—it was all glitzy discos attached to pubs.
(uncountable, music) A genre of Jamaican dance music derived from dub and reggae.
- 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 271:
  It sounded Jamaican to me, a form of dancehall, and […] I wandered over and watched the dancing.

public hall for dancing

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