name
Meaning 1
A female given name.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
celesta
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK, US: /səˈlɛstə/
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UK, US:
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rhymes with -ɛstə
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CMU ARPABET: S IH0 L EH1 S T AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A musical instrument consisting principally of a set of graduated steel plates struck with hammers that are activated by a keyboard.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: celeste
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
a musical instrument consisting of graduated steel plates that are struck by hammers activated by a keyboard
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: keyboard instrument
History
Etymology
Borrowed from French célesta.
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: չելեստա (čʻelesta) — musical instrument
- Basque: zelesta — musical instrument
- Bulgarian: челеста (čelesta) — musical instrument
- Catalan: celesta — musical instrument
- Chinese Mandarin: 鋼片琴 /钢片琴 (gāngpiànqín) — musical instrument
- Finnish: celesta — musical instrument
- French: célesta — musical instrument
- German: Celesta — musical instrument
- Greek: τσελέστα (tselésta) — musical instrument
- Irish: ceileiste — musical instrument
- Italian: celesta — musical instrument
- Japanese: チェレスタ — musical instrument
- Korean: 첼레스타 (chelleseuta) — musical instrument
- Occitan: celeste — musical instrument
- Polish: czelesta — musical instrument
- Portuguese: celesta — musical instrument
- Romanian: celestă — musical instrument
- Russian: челе́ста (čelésta) — musical instrument
- Slovak: čelesta — musical instrument
- Slovene: čelesta — musical instrument
- Spanish: celesta — musical instrument
- Swedish: celesta — musical instrument
- Ukrainian: челеста (čelesta) — musical instrument