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CiCi (album)

CiCi is the eighth studio album by American singer Ciara, released August 22, 2025 via Beauty Marks Entertainment; a 14-track expansion of her 2023 CiCi EP, her first album since Beauty Marks (2019), distinct from albums titled Cici by CICI (2022) and CIARAN (2025).

Ciclón

Ciclón was a Cuban literary magazine published in Havana between 1955 and 1957, with a final issue in 1959, directed by José Rodríguez Feo with Virgilio Piñera as a dissident offshoot of Orígenes.

CID (Indian TV series)

CID (सीआईडी), also called C.I.D., is Sony TV's Hindi police procedural created by B P Singh, running 1998–2018 (1,547 episodes) and revived 2024–2025, starring Shivaji Satam as ACP Pradyuman with Daya and Abhijeet.

Cidade Baixa

Cidade Baixa (Lower City) is a 2005 Brazilian drama by Sérgio Machado, his fiction debut, about childhood friends Deco and Naldinho and the stripper Karinna in Salvador, Bahia; it won the Award of the Youth at Cannes 2005.

Cidadezinha qualquer

"Cidadezinha qualquer" is a short poem by Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade, first published in Alguma poesia in 1930 and now among the most anthologized works of Brazilian modernist poetry.

Cider

Cider is an alcoholic beverage made from fermenting apple juice, typically reaching 1.2–8.5% ABV. Regional use dictates whether the term refers to the fermented drink or raw juice.

Cielito Lindo

Cielito Lindo, also called Canta y no llores, is a Mexican song published in 1882 and attributed to Quirino Mendoza y Cortés (1858-1957). A mariachi staple and unofficial Mexican anthem, its refrain "Ay, ay, ay, ay, canta y no llores" is sung at football matches and after the 2018 Mexico City earthquake.

Cielo

Cielo was a house-music nightclub at 18 Little West 12th Street in Manhattan's Meatpacking District, opened by DJ Nicolas Matar in early 2003 and closed in December 2018 after a 15-year run.

Cierra Ramirez

Cierra Alexa Ramirez (born 1995, Houston) is an American actress and singer. Known as Mariana Adams Foster in The Fosters (2013–2018) and Good Trouble (2019–2024); ALMA Award for Girl in Progress; EP Discreet (2016) and album Over Your Head (2020). Not Cierra Ortega or Cierra Amaya.

Çiftetelli

Çiftetelli, in Greek tsifteteli, is a two-beat dance rhythm and solo dance in Turkish, Greek, and Romani popular music, today largely a Turkish wedding form and a Greek belly dance.

Çiğ köfte

Çiğ köfte (raw meatball) is a southeastern Turkish dish of bulgur, isot pepper, and traditionally raw minced meat, now usually meatless; registered Şanlıurfa (2009) and Adıyaman meatless (2018) geographical indications, spread nationally after 2008 regulation.

Cigar

Cigar: a roll of tobacco wrapped in leaf tobacco (not paper, unlike a cigarette). Types include large cigars, cigarillos, and little cigars; air-cured, fermented tobacco; linked to cancer, COPD, and heart disease.

Cigarette

Cigarette: small paper-wrapped roll of tobacco, usually filtered, burned and inhaled. Smoke has 7,000+ chemicals (70+ carcinogens); 995 million smokers in 2022; kills up to two-thirds of long-term users; nicotine reaches the brain in 10–20 seconds.

Cigarette Girl (Gadis Kretek)

Cigarette Girl (Gadis Kretek) is a 2023 five-episode Netflix Indonesian period drama, the platform's first Indonesian series, adapted from Ratih Kumala's 2012 novel, directed by Kamila Andini and Ifa Isfansyah, set in the 1960s kretek industry, and winner of Best Miniseries at the 2024 Seoul International Drama Awards.

Cigarette pack

Cigarette pack (pack of cigarettes): small retail carton, usually 20 cigarettes minimum, with regulated flip-top or slide-and-shell openings, foil lining, health warnings, plain packaging in 16+ countries, and track-and-trace security features.

Cigarette Smoke

Cigarette Smoke is Olivia Rodrigo’s 2026 breakup ballad, closing you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love and co-written and produced by Daniel Nigro.

Cigarette Smoking Man

The Cigarette Smoking Man, also called Cancer Man or C.G.B. Spender, is a fictional character and the primary antagonist of The X-Files, played by William B. Davis from 1993.

Cigarettes After Sex

Cigarettes After Sex is an American dream pop band formed in 2008 in El Paso, Texas, by Greg Gonzalez; albums Cigarettes After Sex (2017), Cry (2019), and X's (2024), billions of streams, gold and platinum certifications.

Cigarillo

Cigarillo (Spanish cigarrillo): a small cigar, about 3 g of tobacco wrapped in tobacco leaf rather than paper, mostly unfiltered. 94.2% of US cigar unit sales; dual use with cigarettes common; similar nicotine but higher CO than cigarettes; often flavored or used as blunts.

Cilappatikaram

Cilappatikāram (சிலப்பதிகாரம், The Tale of the Anklet), the earliest Tamil epic by Iḷaṅgō Aḍigaḷ, telling of Kaṇṇaki, Kōvalaṉ, and Madurai's destruction; twin epic of Maṇimēkalai.

Cildo Meireles

Cildo Meireles (born 1948, Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian conceptual artist known for Insertions into Ideological Circuits, stamped banknotes and Coca-Cola bottles resisting Brazil's dictatorship.

Çile

Çile is a 1962 poetry collection by Turkish poet Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, gathering all his poems and ranking among the most widely read poetry books in Turkish literature.

Cilla Black

Cilla Black (Priscilla White, 1943-2015), English singer and TV presenter from Liverpool; two 1964 UK No 1 singles, BBC's Cilla, ITV's Blind Date and Surprise Surprise, OBE.

Cillian Murphy

Cillian Murphy is an Irish actor from Cork known for Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders (2013-22) and Oppenheimer (2023), which won him the Best Actor Oscar; frequent Christopher Nolan collaborator, founder of Big Things Films.

Cimabue

Cimabue (Cenni di Pepi, Florence, documented 1272, died Pisa 1302), Florentine painter of the Santa Trinita Maestà and Assisi frescoes, who led Italian painting from the Byzantine maniera greca toward naturalism and taught Giotto.

Cimarron

Cimarron (1931) is RKO's epic Western directed by Wesley Ruggles, adapted from Edna Ferber's novel, starring Richard Dix and Irene Dunne. First Western to win Best Picture; also the 1960 MGM remake with Glenn Ford.

Cimorelli

Cimorelli is an American pop sister group from Sacramento, California, formed in 2007, known for a cappella YouTube covers, an Island Records stint 2010-2015, Nashville independence, and albums Up at Night, Alive, Sad Girls Club, Bittersweet, and Worship Covers.

Cincinnati chili

Cincinnati chili is a Mediterranean-spiced, finely ground beef sauce served over spaghetti or on coneys, created in 1922 by Macedonian brothers Tom and John Kiradjieff at Empress Chili and ordered by numbered "ways".

Cinco de Mayo

Cinco de Mayo (May 5) commemorates Mexico's 1862 victory over France at the Battle of Puebla, not Independence Day (September 16). Born in Civil War-era California, now celebrated mainly in the United States.

Cinder (novel)

Cinder is a 2012 young adult science fiction novel by Marissa Meyer and the first book of the Lunar Chronicles, reimagining Cinderella with a cyborg mechanic as its heroine.