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Look up Calypso, calypso, Calipso, or calipso in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
Calypso refers to:
- Calypso (mythology), a nymph who, famously in Homer's Odyssey, kept Odysseus with her on her island of Ogygia for seven years.
- Calypso (nymphs), other nymphs called Calypso.
Calypso may also refer to:
Places[edit]
- Calypso, an area and a cave in Gozo, Malta
- Calypso, North Carolina, a town in the United States
- Calypso Deep, the deepest point of the Mediterranean Sea
Nature[edit]
- Calypso (moon), a natural satellite of Saturn
- Calypso (plant), an orchid genus containing a single species Calypso bulbosa
- Calypso bean, a kidney bean hybrid also known as the pickle bean, orca bean or yin yang bean
Books[edit]
- "Calypso" (Ulysses episode), an episode in James Joyce's novel Ulysses
- Calypso (book), 2018 essay collection by David Sedaris
- Calypso (comics), Marvel Comics character
- Calypso, Camp Half-Blood Chronicles
Companies and brands[edit]
- Calypso Park, a Canadian theme waterpark
- Calypso Technology, an American financial services application software company
- Calypso (camera), an underwater camera — a precursor to the Nikonos camera
- Calypso (electronic ticketing system), an electronic ticketing system for public transport
- Ultracraft Calypso, a Belgian light aircraft design
- Calypso (email client), later called Courier
Music[edit]
- Calypso music, a genre of Trinidadian folk music
- Banda Calypso, a Brazilian musical duo
- Calypso (album), by Harry Belafonte
Songs[edit]
- "Calypso" (John Denver song), written as a tribute to Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his research ship Calypso
- "Calypso" (Spiderbait song), a 1997 single by Australian alt-rock band Spiderbait
- "Calypso" (Luis Fonsi and Stefflon Don song), 2018
- "Calypso", a song by France Gall
- "Calypso", a song by Jean-Michel Jarre from Waiting for Cousteau
- "Calypso", a song by Suzanne Vega from Solitude Standing
- "Calipso" (song), a 2019 song by Charlie Charles and Dardust featuring Sfera Ebbasta, Mahmood and Fabri Fibra
- "Calipso" (song), a song by alt-rock band Poor Moxi on the EP "Same Kind of Vain" released in 2020
- Chalypso, a dance
Ships[edit]
- MS The Calypso, a cruise ship
- HMS Calypso, the name of a number of British Royal Navy ships
- RV Calypso, a 1942 British minesweeper and later an oceanographic research ship operated by Jacques-Yves Cousteau
- USS Calypso, the name of various United States Navy ships
- MV Calypsoland, a ferry of E. Zammit & Sons Ltd and later the Gozo Channel Line between 1969 and 1984
- Calypso, a name given by Sunita Williams to the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft used for the Boeing Orbital Flight Test in 2019
- UNS Calypso, fictitious starship commanded by the player in the 1994 sci-fi strategy game Alien Legacy
- French submarine Calypso
Other[edit]
- Calypso, a Pirates of the Caribbean character
- Calypso (TV series), a Venezuelan telenovela
- Calypso, a character from the Twisted Metal video game series
- "Calypso" (Star Trek: Short Treks), an episode of Star Trek: Short Treks
Related spellings[edit]
- Kalypso (software), an open source modelling software
- 53 Kalypso, an asteroid
- CALIPSO, NASA's "Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations" satellite
- Kalypso Media, a video game developer