Meanings
- uncountableA type of European synthesizer-driven dance music which became popular worldwide in the early- to mid-1990s and continuing up until today.
Though the genre's formation took place in several countries across Europe, 20 years later Eurodance became the internationally most widespread popular music from Germany.
2020, Oliver Seibt, Martin Ringsmut, David-Emil Wickström, editors, Made in Germany: Studies in Popular Music, Routledge, →ISBN1 more example
A left field U.S. pick, this combination of big beat Eurodisco (or is that Eurodance now?) and westernized Japanese musical motifs is the unlikely work of a Scottish doctor’s wife and singer of traditional Gaelic folk songs.
1981 November 14, “Singles Review”, in Cash Box, volume XLIII, number 26, →ISSN, page 11
Origin
- EnglishEuro-
- Vulgar Latin*dantiāre
- Anglo-Normandauncer
- Middle Englishdauncen
- Englishdance
- EnglishEurodance
Translations
Bulgarian е́вроденс
- е́вроденс (évrodens)A type of European synthesizer-driven dance music
Japanese ユーロダンス
- ユーロダンス (yūrodansu)A type of European synthesizer-driven dance music
Polish eurodance
- eurodanceA type of European synthesizer-driven dance music
Russian Евродэнс
- Евродэнс (Jevrodɛns)A type of European synthesizer-driven dance music
Swedish eurodance, eurodisco
- eurodanceA type of European synthesizer-driven dance music
- eurodiscoA type of European synthesizer-driven dance music
Cite this entry
Eurodance. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Eurodance
“Eurodance.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Eurodance. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Eurodance,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Eurodance.
Source: Eurodance on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.