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Meaning of Ska | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2
skɑː

Definitions

  1. A style of Jamaican dance music originating in the late 1950s, combining elements of Caribbean calypso and mento with American jazz and rhythm and blues; it was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae.
    uncountable
  2. Initialism of Square Kilometer Array.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Equivalents

العربية سكا
Deutsch Ska
Esperanto skao
Español ska
Français ska
Italiano ska
日本語 すが
한국어 스카
Nederlands ska
Polski ska
Português ska
Русский ска
Svenska ska

Examples

“Musical Hairsplitting: The act of classifying music and musicians into pathologically picayune categories: “The Vienna Franks are a good example of urban white acid folk revivalism crossed with ska.””
“Everyone who loves ska has their own story to tell—the first time they heard the Specials back in the '70s, the first time they danced onstage at a Toasters show in the '80s, the first time they saw the Skatalites perform in the '90s.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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