DANCE ORCHESTRA

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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 orchestra" 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 orchestra"):

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))