calypso
IPA: kʌɫˈɪpsoʊ
noun
- A style of Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to the mid-19th century and spread to the rest of the Caribbean Antilles and Venezuela by the mid-20th century. Its rhythms can be traced back to West African Kaiso and the arrival of French planters and their slaves from the French Antilles in the 18th century.
- A bulbous bog orchid of the genus Calypso, Calypso bulbosa
- A light blue color.
- (Greek mythology) A sea nymph who entertained Odysseus on her island, Ogygia, for seven years.
- (astronomy) The eighth moon of Saturn.
- (astronomy) 53 Kalypso, a main belt asteroid; not to be confused with the Saturnian moon mentioned above.
- Alternative letter-case form of calypso [A style of Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to the mid-19th century and spread to the rest of the Caribbean Antilles and Venezuela by the mid-20th century. Its rhythms can be traced back to West African Kaiso and the arrival of French planters and their slaves from the French Antilles in the 18th century.]
verb
- (intransitive) To perform calypso.
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Examples of "calypso" in Sentences
- But it also had strong roots in calypso and other Carribbean folk forms.
- Some of them, such as Monsanto's calypso tomato seeds, are treated with deadly poisons which the EPA banned for home use in the U.S.
- To celebrate, he took the family on a real vacation, to the Bahamas; white beaches, conch shells, calypso music and all that, three guys playing
- It could not exactly be described as calypso cricket but the crucial element was that they did not play the familiar refrain of calypso collapso.
- Dominican Republic etc. I hear more Latino music than I do reggae usually, although I've heard a lot of what's called calypso-usually involving steel drums.
- For others, it is rock or calypso or pounding drums or electronic beats or maybe it is serial composition or traditional hymns or folk music or country and western.
- And looking at other facets of Alexander's life, the PNCR said that Alexander was well versed in the arts and had a thorough understanding of jazz and other musical art forms such as calypso and soca.
- The key to the etymology is the recognition that the original form is kaiso; I love the fact that the transmogrification to the highfalutin "calypso" is called, quite properly, folk etymology-the ignorant "folk" aren't always poor and unlettered!
- I then blithely displayed my arcane knowledge about the popular late 1940's hit song, Rum and Coca-Cola, which was introduced here by comedian Morey Amsterdam, who claimed to have written it after a trip to the islands ... only a Trinidad calypso composer named Lord Invader sued him and proved he had created it; the courts awarded him $150,000 in royalties.
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