Etymology

Eurodance

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Today it means: A type of European synthesizer-driven dance music which became popular worldwide in the early- to mid-1990s and continuing up until today. Full definition →

English dance ← Middle English dauncen ← Anglo-Norman dauncer
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The story

  1. EnglishEuro-
  2. Vulgar Latin*dantiāre
  3. Anglo-Normandauncer
  4. Middle Englishdauncen
  5. Englishdance
  6. English todayEurodance

From Euro- + dance.

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