Kasi

American  

[kah-see] / ˈkɑ si /

noun

1. Kingdom of, an ancient kingdom of N India, the capital at present-day Varanasi; flourished in the 8th–6th centuries b.c.

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Example Sentences

In funny moments like this one, it’s disconcerting to realize that Richard Strand’s 2014 play — at least in director Kasi Campbell’s nimble production — is a comedy that touches on slavery and the Civil War, some of the darkest chapters in America’s past.

From Washington Post

And not just any drummer, but Jeff “Tain” Watts, whose pedigree as a onetime Young Lion in New York’s 1980s jazz scene helped propel several scenes in Kasi Lemmons’s libretto.

From New York Times

Terence Blanchard and Kasi Lemmons’s operatic adaptation of Charles M. Blow’s 2014 memoir tore the roof off the Metropolitan Opera when it reopened to the world in September.

From Washington Post

In August, the governor of South Kivu, Theo Kasi, suspended the operations of six small Chinese companies, ordering all local and foreign staff to leave the sites.

From Reuters

Later that month, he began the Met’s season in earnest at the podium for Terence Blanchard and Kasi Lemmons’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” from 2019, the company’s first work by a Black composer.

From New York Times