house music

English

Etymology

Probably from The Warehouse, a nightclub in Chicago, Illinois, USA, where the music became popular around 1985.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaʊs ˌmjuːzɪk/

Noun

house music (uncountable)

1. (music) A particular type of electronic dance music with an uptempo beat and recurring kickdrum.

   Synonym: house

   Hyponym: microhouse

   • 1986, Marshall Jefferson (lyrics and music), “Move Your Body”:

     Gotta have house music, all night long / With that house music, you can't go wrong / Give me that house music, set me free

   • 1987, “My House”, Chuck Roberts (lyrics), performed by Rhythm Controll:

     House is an uncontrollable desire to jack your body / And, as I told you before, this is our house and our house music

   • 2007, Danny Palmerlee, South America on a Shoestring, page 66:

     Corrugated-steel ceilings, a dozen blue-felted pool tables and DJ house music Thursday to Saturday.

Hyponyms

• acid house
• afro house
• ambient house
• balearic beat
• bass house
• big room house
• brazilian bass
• color house
• commercial house
• deep house
• diva house
• electro house
• funky house
• future house
• garage house
• ghetto house
• gqom
• hip house
• jackin' house
• kwaito
• Latin house
• melodic house
• microhouse
• organic house
• outsider house
• phonk house
• progressive house
• slap house
• speed house
• tech house
• tribal house
• tropical house
• UK hard house

 

Translations

type of electronic dance music with an uptempo beat and recurring kickdrum

Afrikaans: housemusiek Arabic: هاوس m (hāūs), موسيقى الهاوس f Egyptian Arabic: مزيكا الهاوس Belarusian: гаўс (haŭs) Bulgarian: хаус (haus) Catalan: música house f, house (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 浩室音樂／浩室音乐 (hàoshì yīnyuè) Czech: house music, house (cs) Danish: house (da) Dutch: house (nl) c, housemuziek (nl) c Esperanto: haŭzo Estonian: house-muusika, house (et) Finnish: house (fi) French: house (fr) f, musique house (fr) f, house music (fr) f Galician: house (gl) m Georgian: ჰაუსი (hausi), ჰაუს-მუსიკა (haus-musiḳa) German: House (de) m, House-Musik f, Housemusik f Greek: χάουζ (el) f (cháouz), house (el) f Hebrew: האוס Hungarian: house (hu) Icelandic: hústónlist, house-tónlist, house (is) Ido: please add this translation if you can Indonesian: musik house, house (id) Italian: musica house f, house (it) f Jamaican Creole: ous myuuzik Japanese: ハウス (ja) (hausu), ハウス音楽 Korean: 하우스 음악 (hauseu eumak), 하우스 (hauseu) Latin: musica domestica f, domestica f Latvian: hausmūzika f, hauss Lithuanian: house (lt) Lombard: müsega house f, house (lmo) Norwegian: house (no) Nynorsk: house-musikk, house Occitan: musica house f, house (oc) m Persian: موسیقی هاوس Polish: house (pl) m Portuguese: house (pt) m, música house f Quechua: house (qu) Romanian: muzică house, house (ro) Russian: ха́ус (ru) m (xáus) Scots: house muisic, hoose muisic Serbo-Croatian: хауз c, house glazba, house (sh) Slovak: house (sk) Slovene: house (sl) Spanish: música house (es), house (es) Swedish: house (sv) c, housemusik (sv), house-musik Thai: เฮาส์ Turkish: house müzik, house (tr) Ukrainian: хауз (xauz) Welsh: House West Frisian: housemuzyk c, house (fy) c

Further reading

• house music on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• music house

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /(h)aws my.zik/

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Noun

house music f (plural house music)

1. house music, house

   Synonym: house