Definition of "calypso" in English

noun

1. 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. A song in this style of music.

verb

1. (intransitive) To perform calypso.

noun

1. A bulbous bog orchid of the genus Calypso, Calypso bulbosa

2. A light blue color.