- rock'n'roll
- nouna genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western-
rock is a generic term for the range of styles that evolved out of rock'n'roll.
• Syn: ↑rock 'n' roll, ↑rock-and-roll, ↑rock and roll, ↑rock, ↑rock music• Members of this Topic: ↑backbeat• Hypernyms: ↑popular music, ↑popular music genre• Hyponyms:↑heavy metal, ↑heavy metal music, ↑progressive rock, ↑art rock, ↑psychedelic rock, ↑acid rock, ↑punk rock, ↑punk• Part Meronyms: ↑backbeat* * *
rockˈ'n'rollˈ or rock and roll noun1. A simple form of music deriving from jazz, country-and-western and blues music, with a strongly accented, two-beat rhythm2. Dancing to the musicintransitive verbTo play or dance to this music• • •Main Entry: ↑rock* * *
rock'n'roll «ROK uhn ROHL», noun, adjective, verb.–noun.1. a kind of popular music with a strong beat and a simple, repetitious melody. It is played with a two-beat rhythm that accents every second beat, usually with guitars and various other instruments for singing or dancing; rock. Rock'n'roll is derived from folk music, blues, and jazz.2. a vigorous dance done to this music. The style of rock'n'roll is characterized by improvisation and exaggerated movements.–adjective.of or having to do with rock'n'roll: »rock'n'roll music, a rock'n'roll band.
–intransitive verb.to dance to rock'n'roll.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.