Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A style of bolero music originating in the Dominican Republic.
  • noun A Latin American dance for two people, performed to this music and involving a four-step pattern punctuated with a shake of the hips.

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  • noun A genre of music originating in the Dominican Republic.
  • noun A style of dance accompanying this music.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[American Spanish, boisterous merrymaking, bachata, shortening and alteration of cumbanchata, augmentative of cumbancha, boisterous merrymaking, from augmentative or deprecative form of cumbé, an Afro-Caribbean dance, perhaps from Kongo kúmba, to make noise.]

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Examples

  • Joan has been featured on the Rough Guide to the Bachata and on the documentary Santo Domingo Blues as well as performed and recorded with big name bachata musicians such as Joe Veras and Zacarias Ferreira.

    PegasusNews.com stories 2010

  • Joan has been featured on the Rough Guide to the Bachata and on the documentary Santo Domingo Blues as well as performed and recorded with big name bachata musicians such as Joe Veras and Zacarias Ferreira.

    PegasusNews.com stories 2010

  • Joan has been featured on the Rough Guide to the Bachata and on the documentary Santo Domingo Blues as well as performed and recorded with big name bachata musicians such as Joe Veras and Zacarias Ferreira.

    PegasusNews.com stories 2010

  • Joan has been featured on the Rough Guide to the Bachata and on the documentary Santo Domingo Blues as well as performed and recorded with big name bachata musicians such as Joe Veras and Zacarias Ferreira.

    PegasusNews.com stories 2010

  • Joan has been featured on the Rough Guide to the Bachata and on the documentary Santo Domingo Blues as well as performed and recorded with big name bachata musicians such as Joe Veras and Zacarias Ferreira.

    PegasusNews.com stories 2010

  • - Hermosillo Crossover Dreams of a Bronx Bachatero - Anthony Santos the frontman of Aventura, a quartet that specializes in the slinky Dominican ballad style called bachata Hispanic farmers on Friday told a U.S.

    HispanicTips 2009

  • - Hermosillo Crossover Dreams of a Bronx Bachatero - Anthony Santos the frontman of Aventura, a quartet that specializes in the slinky Dominican ballad style called bachata Hispanic farmers on Friday told a U.S.

    HispanicTips 2009

  • - Hermosillo Crossover Dreams of a Bronx Bachatero - Anthony Santos the frontman of Aventura, a quartet that specializes in the slinky Dominican ballad style called bachata Hispanic farmers on Friday told a U.S.

    HispanicTips 2009

  • - Hermosillo Crossover Dreams of a Bronx Bachatero - Anthony Santos the frontman of Aventura, a quartet that specializes in the slinky Dominican ballad style called bachata Hispanic farmers on Friday told a U.S.

    HispanicTips 2009

  • - Hermosillo Crossover Dreams of a Bronx Bachatero - Anthony Santos the frontman of Aventura, a quartet that specializes in the slinky Dominican ballad style called bachata Hispanic farmers on Friday told a U.S.

    HispanicTips 2009

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