techno

¹

[ tek-noh ]

noun

1. a style of disco music characterized by very fast synthesizer rhythms, heavy use of samples, and a lack of melody.

techno-

²

1. a combining form borrowed from Greek where it meant “art,” “skill,” used in the formation of compound words with the meaning “technique,” “technology,” etc.:

   technography.

techno-

¹

combining_form

1. craft or art

   technography

   technology

2. technological or technical

   technocracy

3. relating to or using technology

   technophobia

techno

²

/ ˈtɛknəʊ /

noun

1. a type of very fast dance music, using electronic sounds and fast heavy beats

Word History and Origins

Origin of techno¹

First recorded in 1985–90

Origin of techno²

Combining form representing Greek téchnē art, skill. See technic

Word History and Origins

Origin of techno¹

from Greek tekhnē skill

Example Sentences

The 29-year-old traverses funk and disco to house and techno to hip-hop and Afrobeat, weaving together dance floor dreams and breakbeats that echo through the ages into music that shuffles, stutters and struts.

From Washington Post

In high school during the early 2010s, Miers had a taste of techno rights activism.

From Digiday

In a lost year for dance music, Bergsonist kept a techno diary The best pop music of 2020

From Washington Post

But Ibiza reached its peak during the 90s, when the island became the starting point of the techno movement.

From The Daily Beast

More than a few 20th-century acting greats, we decided, would have thrived on being techno-celebrities.

From The Daily Beast

Another technique is the outsourcing of labor to lower paid foreign workers, the so called “techno-coolies.”

From The Daily Beast

He also made disco-techno music as a “record performer,” his producer Mark Bauman said.

From The Daily Beast

No wonder Mark Zuckerberg and other oligarchs are so anxious to import “techno coolies” from abroad.

From The Daily Beast

A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.

From Project Gutenberg

The techno-theological attempts to rise from the adjustment of means to ends, to an adjuster or contriver.

From Project Gutenberg

Some of the suggestions to be made in the coming lines might sound utopian or have the ring of techno-babble.

From Project Gutenberg