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discotheque - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

discotheque (plural discotheques)

• (dated) A nightclub where dancing takes place.
  • ✤ Synonym: disco
  • ✤ By night, it must be admitted, the place is something of a horror, with its endless repetitive bars and strip-joints and hot-doggeries and battalions of barkers competing with the howl of the discotheques.¹

Etymology

Borrowed from French discothèque (“record library; discotheque”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈdɪskəˌtɛk/, /ˈdɪskoʊˌtɛk/
• Audio (Southern England): 🔊

Printed 2026-08-21.

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Footnotes

1. 1969, the editors of Time-Life Books, “New Orleans”, in The USA: A Visitor’s Handbook, Amsterdam: Time-Life Books, →LCCN, →OCLC, chapter 2 (Famous Cities), page 160: ↩

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