calliope
pronunciation
How to pronounce calliope in British English:
UK [kəˈlaiəpi:]
How to pronounce calliope in American English:
US [kəˈlaɪəˌpi, ˈkæliˌop]
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- Noun:
- a musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles played from a keyboard
Word Origin
- calliope (n.)
- 1858, "steam-whistle keyboard organ," named for Calliope, ninth and chief muse, presiding over eloquence and epic poetry, Latinized from Greek Kalliope, literally "beautiful-voiced," from kalli-, combining form of kallos "beauty" (see Callisto) + opos (genitive of *ops) "voice," related to Latin vox (see voice (n.)).
Example
- 1. And poesy made calliope 's own child ;
- 2. Not even the muse calliope , the muse of epic poetry , was in a position to avert a human tragedy like this .
- 3. With this very unpleasing sneezing and wheezing the calliope crashed to the ground .
- 4. I know that joel has a wife named something like calliope who is a hippie and that joel lives in hollywood , has a kid and makes something like $ 287000 a year .
- 5. The calliope hummingbird weighs only as much as two paper clips , yet it migrates annually between canada and mexico .