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kefi

kefi noun: high spirits, ebullience, chiefly in Greece or among Greek people.

Noun

kefi (uncountable)

  1. High spirits, ebullience, chiefly in Greece or among Greek people.
    • ‘You have too many high spirits, altogether too much kefi, to be a good husband.’1994, Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Minerva, published 1995, page 55
    • Music was a context in which men and women, regardless of their political orientation, could express emotions, especially of grief and kefi, in modern Greece.2015, Nikolaos Papadogiannis, Militant Around the Clock?, Berghahn, published 2019, page 111

Origin of kefi

Borrowed from Greek κέφι (kéfi).

Questions about kefi

What does kefi mean?
Kefi means high spirits, ebullience, chiefly in Greece or among Greek people.
What part of speech is kefi?
Kefi is a noun.

Words near kefi in the dictionary

  1. Keffers
  2. keffiyah
  3. keffiyahs
  4. keffiyeh
  5. keffiyehs
  6. kefi
  7. kefir
  8. kefir grain
  9. kefir grains
  10. kefiran
  11. kefirs

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