eisteddfod
/ʌɪˈstɛðvɒd
/ /ʌɪˈstɛdvəd /noun (plural eisteddfods or eisteddfodau /ʌɪstɛðˈvɒdʌɪ/)
A competitive festival of music and poetry in Wales.The eisteddfodau in Wales are of course a wonderful tradition where you had singing and poetry competitions in any given village every different Saturday....
- First, anyone who has participated in a piano eisteddfod, a dance competition or a debating tournament as a teenager knows that the fierce competition we throw children into is not cute or amusing, it is intense and potentially scarring.
- But I don't think we can abandon the eisteddfod altogether; it is a too important community event.
Origin
Welsh, literally 'session', from eistedd 'sit'.
- Stirling
- Stirling engine
- Stirling, James
- Stirling, Robert
- Stirling, Sir James Fraser
- stir one's stumps
- stirrer
- stirring
- stirringly
- stirrup
- stirrup bone
- stirrup cup
- stirrup iron
- stirrup leather
- stirrup pants
- stirrup pump
- stirrups
- stir something up
- stir the blood
- stir the possum
- stishovite
- stitch
- stitch and bitch
- stitchbird
- stitcher