calypso

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A 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.'”

2. (countable, uncountable)A song in this style of music.
3. (countable, uncountable)A bulbous bog orchid of the genus Calypso, Calypso bulbosa
4. (countable, uncountable)A light blue color.

verb

1. (intransitive)To perform calypso.

name

1. (Greek)A sea nymph who entertained Odysseus on her island, Ogygia, for seven years.
2. The eighth moon of Saturn.
3. 53 Kalypso, a main belt asteroid; not to be confused with the Saturnian moon mentioned above.
4. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of calypso.