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Meaning of cicala | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
sɪˈkɑːlə

Definitions

  1. A cicada.
  2. A surname from Italian.

Equivalents

Français Cicala
Italiano cicala

Examples

“The shrill cicalas, people of the pine, / Making their summer lives one ceaseless song […]”
“She recalled the old hall, with its storied frescoes—the woods, where so many mornings had passed so happily away—the little river, where they used to launch their light boats, made of the green rushes which grew beside; she recalled the blithe chirp of the cicala in the fragrant grass—and the gleam of the fire-flies, glittering by twilight amid the boughs of the myrtle.”

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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