Calypso vs African - What's the difference?
calypso | african |
A type of music and dance that originated in the West Indies (perhaps Trinidad), a ballad is characterized by improvised lyrics on topical or broadly humorous subjects, often creating satire of current events.
A bulbous bog orchid of the genus
A light blue color.
Of or pertaining to Africa.
A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.
* 2007 , African Immigrant Religions in America (ISBN 0814762409):
As a proper noun calypso
is (greek god) a sea nymph who entertained odysseus on her island, ogygia, for seven years.As an adjective african is
african.calypso
English
(Calypso music)Etymology 1
Originally Trinidad English, an alteration of (kaiso), perhaps ultimately of African origin; Allsopp 1996 suggests (etyl) , used to urge dancers on. The spelling reflects a later folk-etymological assimilation with the mythological name (Calypso).Noun
(en-noun)Derived terms
* calypsonianNoun
(en-noun)References
*Anagrams
* ----african
English
Alternative forms
* AfricAdjective
(-)Derived terms
* African elephant * African hemp * African marigold * African oak * African penguin * African teak * African violet * North African * South AfricanHyponyms
* Maghrebi * Congolese * Ethiopian * Ugandan * Zimbabwean * MozambicanNoun
(en noun)- Africans constitute significantly growing populations not only in major urban centers such as New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, and Atlanta but also in small and midsize cities in states such as Ohio and Maine.
