calypso

[US]/kə'lɪpsəʊ/
[UK]/kə'lɪpso/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. songs sung by the indigenous people of Trinidad with improvisation
adj. relating to the songs sung by the indigenous people of Trinidad with improvisation
Word Forms
Pluralcalypsos

Phrases & Collocations

calypso music

Caribbean calypso

Example Sentences

dancing to the calypso music at the beach party

the calypso rhythm filled the air with energy

listening to calypso songs while sipping a cocktail

the calypso band played lively tunes all night

she swayed her hips to the infectious calypso beat

the tropical resort featured nightly calypso performances

the calypso singer had a captivating voice

his calypso-inspired artwork was vibrant and colorful

the calypso festival attracted visitors from all over the world

enjoying the lively calypso atmosphere of the Caribbean

Real-world Examples

Another perennial music favorite is calypso, which is also sung in the Caribbean island English dialect.

Source: Advanced American English by Lai Shih-hsiung

But in his newest essay collection, Calypso, out now, he looks to the present and the future.

Source: Time

He read each of the essays in Calypso onstage at least 50 times before the book was published.

Source: Time

And yet in Calypso, he occasionally drops his trademark humor in favor of meditations on regret and mortality.

Source: Time

He sailed in his ship, the 'Calypso', and explored sea life.

Source: Kid's Box 4

Zeus said that it should be so no longer, and he sent Hermes to Calypso to tell her to let Ulysses depart.

Source: American Elementary School English 6

Would any Circe or Calypso—and if so, what one? —ever check this pale-haired scientist's nocturnal sailings into the interminable spaces overhead, and hurl all his mighty calculations on cosmic force and stellar fire into Limbo?

Source: Lovers in the Tower (Part 1)

ALICE WINKLER: The jobs she did go on to have, by the 1950s, included singing in a nightclub, acting in the European tour of Porgy and Bess, dancing with Alvin Ailey on television, and recording an album called Calypso Lady.

Source: What it takes: Celebrity Interviews

In her suitcase she had a red velour hoodie she had bought at Calypso and a gold watch shaped like a beetle – a gift from her father, " a very, very good man" , who gave neighbours financial help and donated to hospitals.

Source: Selected English short passages

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