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DANCE BAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dance band mean? 

DANCE BAND (noun)
  The noun DANCE BAND has 1 sense:

1. a group of musicians playing popular music for dancingplay

  Familiarity information: DANCE BAND used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DANCE BAND (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of musicians playing popular music for dancing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

band; dance band; dance orchestra

Hypernyms ("dance band" is a kind of...):

musical group; musical organisation; musical organization (an organization of musicians who perform together)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dance band"):

big band (a large dance or jazz band usually featuring improvised solos by lead musicians)

combo; jazz band; jazz group (a small band of jazz musicians)

rock band; rock group (a band of musicians who play rock'n'roll music)

steel band (a band that plays instruments made from the heads of oil drums (Caribbean Islands))


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