discotheque
USDIS-kuh-tek/ˈdɪskəˌtɛk/
Pluraldiscotheques
- 1A nightclub where people gather to dance.
They spent the whole night dancing at a crowded discotheque near the harbor.
In the 1970s the empty warehouse was turned into a discotheque with mirrored walls and a lighted floor.
Similardisco
Note
French gave English the word, and in French a discothèque was a record library, a collection of discs rather than a place to dance on them. Today the full form sounds dated, which makes it useful for a period setting or a knowingly old-fashioned voice. In ordinary talk the same place is a club, a nightclub or, shortened, a disco.
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Origin
Borrowed from French discothèque, meaning “record library”.