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discoteca

nightclub

noun dee-skoh-TEH-kah Rare

Also means

disco

Usage Note

Discoteca is a dance club or discotheque; in older Italian it also meant a record library or record collection, though that usage is now rare. The plural is discoteche. Colloquially shortened to disco in casual speech. Note that c before -a stays hard 'k' but becomes 'ch' before -e (hence the plural discoteche = dee-skoh-TEH-keh).

Examples

"Andiamo in discoteca sabato sera."

Natural Translation

We are going to the nightclub Saturday night.

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