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DANCE BAND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A group of musicians playing popular music for dancing
Synonyms:
band; dance band; dance orchestra
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
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))
