Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An annual competitive festival of Welsh poets and musicians.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An assembly; a meeting: specifically applied to a national assembly or congress of bards and minstrels held periodically in Wales.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An assembly or session of the Welsh bards; an annual congress of bards, minstrels and literati of Wales, -- being a patriotic revival of the old custom.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
annual festivals in whichWelsh poets ,dancers , andmusicians compete forrecognition .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of several annual Welsh festivals involving artistic competitions (especially in singing)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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More than 4,000 competitors from more than 50 countries are taking part in this year's eisteddfod, which is celebrating its 65th anniversary.
BBC News - Home 2011
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Perhaps it was just disappointment that caused what Amis later described as the “eisteddfod of hostility” that greeted its publication.
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Perhaps it was just disappointment that caused what Amis later described as the “eisteddfod of hostility” that greeted its publication.
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• Cardiff is the capital city - there is an additional focus on an eisteddfod in the capital.
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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• Cardiff is the capital city - there is an additional focus on an eisteddfod in the capital.
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It's also, weirdly, a formal, public celebration of spoken language, a kind of political eisteddfod.
Obama & the Conquest of Denver Chabon, Michael 2008
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He said that he had himself won the prize for the best englyn on a particular subject at an eisteddfod at which Sir Watkin Williams Wynn presided, and at which Heber, afterwards Bishop of Calcutta, was present, who appeared to understand Welsh well, and who took much interest in the proceedings of the meeting.
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“I suppose by graduate bard you mean one who has gained the chair at an eisteddfod?” said the man in grey.
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A final decision on the future of the eisteddfod as an organisation had not yet been taken.
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A Welsh choir, unless it was competing at an eisteddfod, really did not need to have someone stand in front of it beating time or forcing changes of volume or tempo.
Truly Balogh, Mary 1996
Prolagus commented on the word eisteddfod
Almost as hard to pronounce as u felattd.
April 3, 2008