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tertulia

UK/tɜːˈtuːlɪə/

tertulia noun: an evening party, a soirée, especially in Spain.

Noun

tertulia (plural tertulias)

  1. An evening party, a soirée, especially in Spain.
    • At this the man at the left who’d so far not spoke at all rose laughing and gestured for the two boys to follow and they went with him out of the square and into the street leaving the disputants to their rustic parkbench tertulia.1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

Forms of tertulia

pluraltertulias

Origin of tertulia

From Spanish tertulia.

Questions about tertulia

What does tertulia mean?
Tertulia means an evening party, a soirée, especially in Spain.
What part of speech is tertulia?
Tertulia is a noun.
How do you pronounce tertulia?
Tertulia is pronounced /tɜːˈtuːlɪə/ (UK).
What is the plural of tertulia?
The plural of tertulia is tertulias.

Words near tertulia in the dictionary

  1. tertiparous
  2. tertium non datur
  3. tertium quid
  4. tertium quids
  5. tertschite
  6. tertulia
  7. tertulias
  8. Tertullian
  9. Tertullianism
  10. Tertullianist
  11. Tertullianists

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