ceilidh
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Is ceilidh a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends No
What is the meaning of ceilidh?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (dance) Ellipsis of ceilidh dance.Examples: "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."; "'Traditional' British dance is a rather woolly genre; its bounds drawn without much discrimination and inclusive of folk dancing, ceilidh, country dancing and pretty much anything pre-20ᵗʰ century that didn't involve a tutu."; "We asked guests to bring something to share: poems, songs, short stories, music, even juggling—whatever they wanted to perform. Afterwards, we all danced the ceilidh, […]"IrelandScotlandabbreviationalsoalt-ofattributiveellipsis
verb (English)
1. (dance) To dance a ceilidh dance.Examples: "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'."IrelandScotlandalsoattributiveintransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary