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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
ceilidh is a noun meaning "an informal social gathering at which there is Scottish or Irish folk music and singing and folk dancing and story telling". It carries one recorded sense.
an informal social gathering at which there is Scottish or Irish folk music and singing and folk dancing and story telling
Scotland · Ireland
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ceilidh come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.