world music

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

[U] a type of pop music that includes influences from different parts of the world, especially Africa and Asia

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

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world musicEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary world musicEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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