English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Probably from The Warehouse, a nightclub in Chicago, Illinois, USA, where the music became popular around 1985.
Pronunciation[edit]
house music (uncountable)
- (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.
Translations[edit]
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)
- 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
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Pronunciation[edit]
house music f (plural house music)
- house music, house
- Synonym: house