céilidh

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An informal social gathering, especially one where traditional Irish or Scottish folk music is played, with dancing and storytelling.

   “[A]ll the details of it are recited with minute exactness around the fireside during the winter ceilidhean.”

2. isim Ellipsis of ceilidh dance.

   “Looking for the Possible Dance [by Alison Louise Kennedy] sets up the 'dance', the ceilidh, as a site of personal and possibly national salvation, but one plagued by insecurities.”

3. fiil To attend a ceilidh (noun sense 1).
4. fiil To dance a ceilidh dance.

   “Nightly the scratch of fiddles and the thud of a reel-set staccatoed the timbers [of the ship sailing from Londonderry to Boston], as the peasant Irish ceilidhed their way to 'Amerikay'.”

5. isim Alternative form of ceilidh.

   “Although cèilidhs were undoubtedly crucial for oral tradition’s transmission, aspects – particularly song – were all-pervasive and ever-present.”

6. isim Alternative form of ceilidh.