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/

• Audio:

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Noun

house music f (plural house music)

1. house music, house

   Synonym: house