tertulia

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UK/tɜːˈtuːlɪə/

noun

An evening party, a soirée, especially in Spain.

OriginSpanish tertulia →
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Meanings

nountertulia (plural tertulias)

plural tertulias

  1. An evening party, a soirée, especially in Spain.

    At this the man at the left who’d so far not spoke at all rose laughing and gestured for the two boys to follow and they went with him out of the square and into the street leaving the disputants to their rustic parkbench tertulia.

    1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

Origin

  1. Spanishtertulia
  2. Englishtertulia

From Spanish tertulia.

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APA

tertulia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tertulia

MLA

“tertulia.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tertulia. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tertulia,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tertulia.

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