dance hall
noun
a public establishment that, for an admission fee, provides its patrons with music and space for dancing and, sometimes, dancing partners and refreshments.
dance halls
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pluralof dance hall.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In the 1920s and 1930s, Harlem was peppered with dance halls, the most famous being the Savoy Ballroom, which opened a century ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
Stewart continued to find audiences in Texas dance halls, as well as on the Native American reservations of the Southwest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
Modern ballroom culture, or ball culture, traces its roots to the rent parties and dance halls of 1920s Harlem, where queer Black residents could not only gather in public, but openly celebrate their identities.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 5, 2023
It’s the same effect that viewing an Ernie Barnes painting can have — you want to be inside his soulful depictions of crowded juke joints and dance halls, living it up while getting down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2023
During the 1920’s, according to the history the War kids recounted from their parents, War was a wild, bawdy place of dance halls and gambling houses.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
