celestes

Meaning of celestes

plural noun

a small keyboard instrument in which felted hammers strike a row of steel plates suspended over wooden resonators, giving an ethereal bell-like sound.

late 19th century: pseudo-Latin, based on French céleste ‘heavenly’.

plural noun
  1. short for voix celeste.
  2. another term for celesta.

late 19th century: from French céleste ‘heavenly’, from Latin caelestis, from caelum ‘heaven’.

Information about celestes

Hyphenation of celestes

ce-lestes

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • celestes is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

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