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Meaning of "Acid House" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ACID HOUSE

Perhaps from acid (LSD) + House (music).
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PRONUNCIATION OF ACID HOUSE

Acid House play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ACID HOUSE

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Acid House is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ACID HOUSE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Acid House

Acid house

Acid house is a sub-genre of house music developed around the mid-1980s by DJs from Chicago, Illinois. The defining feature of a 'squelching' bass sound was produced using the Roland TB-303 electronic synthesizer-sequencer. Acid house spread to the United Kingdom and continental Europe, where it was played by DJs in the acid house and later rave scenes. By the late 1980s, Acid house had moved into the British mainstream, where it had some influence on pop and dance styles. Nicknamed the sound of acid, the influence of acid house can be heard in subsequent styles of music that include trance, Goa trance, psychedelic trance, breakbeat, big beat, and techno.

Definition of Acid House in the English dictionary

The definition of Acid House in the dictionary is a type of funk-based electronically edited disco music of the late 1980s, which has hypnotic sound effects and is associated with hippy culture and the use of the drug ecstasy.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ACID HOUSE

Acid House party

WORDS THAT END LIKE ACID HOUSE

Admiralty House
Broadcasting House
Chatsworth House
clerk of the House
Committee of the Whole House
Father of the House
Government House
Harewood House
house
Kenwood House
Mansion House
Osborne House
Queen´s House
Somerset House
Syon House
the House
the Mansion House
the White House
Trinity House
White House
Wilton House

Synonyms and antonyms of Acid House in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Acid House» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ACID HOUSE

Find out the translation of Acid House to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Acid House from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Acid House» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

酸屋
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Acid House
570 millions of speakers

English

Acid House
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

एसिड घर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حمض البيت
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Acid House
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Acid House
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

এসিড হাউস
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Acid House
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Acid House
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Acid House
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

アシッドハウス
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

산 하우스
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Asam House
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Acid House
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஆசிட் ஹவுஸ்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ऍसिड हाऊस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Acid House
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

acid House
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kwas Dom
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Acid House
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Acid Casa
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Acid House
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

suur Huis
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Acid House
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Acid House
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Acid House

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ACID HOUSE»

The term «Acid House» is regularly used and occupies the 82.224 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ACID HOUSE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Acid House

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ACID HOUSE»

Discover the use of Acid House in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Acid House and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House
This new edition sees Matthew Collin cast a fresh eye on the heady events of the acid house 'Summer of Love' and the rave scene's euphoric escalation into commercial excess as MDMA became a mass-market narcotic.
Matthew Collin, 2010
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The Acid House
The characters in this extraordinary book are often - on the surface - depraved, vicious, cowardly and manipulative, but their essential humanity is never undermined.
Irvine Welsh, 2008
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The True Story of Acid House: Britain’s Last Youth Culture ...
Luke Bainbridge is uniquely positioned to tell this story, having connections both in the industry, through nearly two decades as a music journalist, and on the dancefloor, through two decades of dancing, promoting and DJing.
Luke Bainbridge
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The Acid House
From the author of Trainspotting, an adaptation of another of his best-selling works - a collection of short stories - The Acid House Trilogy The Acid House Trilogy is made up of three of Welsh's most powerful stories; The Granton Star ...
Irvine Welsh, 1999
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Counterculture Through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House
From the Hardcover edition.
Ken Goffman, Dan Joy, 2007
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Irvine Welsh
Welsh's second major publication, The Acid House, comprises a collection of short stories and a novella, which had, in large part, been written coterminously with much of the Trainspotting materials. As Welsh explains: 'I had this other stuff that ...
Aaron Kelly, 2005
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The True Story of Acid House: Britain's Last Youth Culture ...
This is the true story of acid house, from the DJ box to the dancefloor. Why has the free party scene never really been replicated, despite new technology's greater capacity to organize events and disseminate information?
Luke Bainbridge, 2013
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Acid House Songs: Theme from S'Express
Chapters: Theme From S'express. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge.
Books Group, 2010
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Acid House Groups: Lords of Acid, 808 State, the Klf, the ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Books LLC, 2010
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1989: Bob Dylan Didn’t Have This to Sing About
For all acid house's roots in u.s. dance music, the specificity of the u.K.— its racial and interurban dynamics, its place in the circuit of european cosmopolitanism, the stone- gray particularities of the postindustrial landscape, of thatcherian ...
Joshua Clover, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ACID HOUSE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Acid House is used in the context of the following news items.
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Q&A: Seth Troxler
Well, everyone seems to think it's going to be some kind of acid house heritage party, but that's not it really. We had a chance to work with ... «Mixmag, Jul 15»
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Glitch God Aphex Twin Resurrects His AFX Moniker for "Orphaned …
The non-stop digitally-charged sounds of that album are somewhere between acid house and an Atari malfunctioning, which is probably why ... «THUMP, Jul 15»
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Music to adland's ears
One of my colleagues swears by acid house when working on ideas. Another team leader favours 90s house, but the rest of the team turn it off ... «Media Week, Jul 15»
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Jeremy Deller's artworks draw links between Victorian factories and …
Among his best-known works is Acid Brass (1997), in which a Stockport brass band performed acid house and Detroit techno tracks. The artist ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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Happy Birthday, Missy Elliott!
The early '00s was when Timbaland truly went insane with his influences and beats (he had already thrown European acid house at Aaliyah for ... «The BoomBox, Jul 15»
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Top 5 Parties in SF This Weekend
Expect to hear some post-punk, some industrial, some disco, some acid house, some electro, and everything else in between. It's cheap and ... «SF Weekly, Jul 15»
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A Disco Legend and a Techno Pioneer
... dance music as well as a tireless innovator. Mr. Atkins connects the dots between four decades of techno, disco, funk, acid house and electro. «Wall Street Journal, Jun 15»
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Fingers, Bank Pads And Shoe Prints Noel Gardner , June 29th, 2015 …
... (in the way that acid house, rave, jungle and garage all crashed the party); if we're to consider the last five years of footwork in isolation, then, ... «The Quietus, Jun 15»
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Glastonbury Festival 2015 Day One: Super Furry Animals …
Climactic tune The Man Don't Give A Fuck goes on for about ten minutes with a spine-tingling central acid house nightmare section to thrill and ... «MOJO, Jun 15»
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Italia 90: Football fans will never have it so good again
Did I mention the rave scene or acid house? I've probably forgotten but that was 1989 for you. This was the background to Italia 90. As Edwin A. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»

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