calypso

plural calypsos · plural calypsoes

1. countableuncountableA style of Afro-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.

   'How you does live, Mr. Wordsworth?' I asked him one day. He said, 'You mean how I get money?' When I nodded, he laughed in a crooked way. He said, 'I sing calypsoes in the calypso season.' 'And that last you the rest of the year?' 'It is enough.'

   1959, V. S. Naipaul, “B. Wordsworth”, in Miguel Street

2. countableuncountableA song in this style of music.

present singular third person calypsos · participle present calypsoing · participle past calypsoed · past calypsoed

1. intransitiveTo perform calypso.

plural calypsos · plural calypsoes

1. countableuncountableA bulbous bog orchid of the genus Calypso, Calypso bulbosa
2. countableuncountableA light blue color.

1. Greekhuman sciencesA sea nymph who entertained Odysseus on her island, Ogygia, for seven years.
2. astronomyThe eighth moon of Saturn.
3. astronomy53 Kalypso, a main belt asteroid; not to be confused with the Saturnian moon mentioned above.
4. Alternative letter-case form of calypso.