About The Word Carnival
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Carnival
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What's The Definition Of Carnival?
[n] a festival marked by merrymaking and processions
[n] a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc. [n] a frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a circus or carnival; "it was so funny it was a circus"; "the whole occasion had a carnival atmosphere" Synonyms | Synonyms for Carnival: circus | fair | funfair Related Terms | Find terms related to Carnival: Advent | Allhallowmas | Allhallows | Allhallowtide | Annunciation | Annunciation Day | Ascension Day | Ash Wednesday | banquet | blowout | Broadway | burlesque | burlesque show | Candlemas | Candlemas Day | Christmas | circus | coochie show | Corpus Christi | do | drama | Easter | Easter Monday | Easter Saturday | Easter Sunday | Eastertide | Ember days | entertainment industry | Epiphany | fair | fantoccini | feast | festival | festive occasion | festivity | fete | field day | fiesta | floor show | gala | gala affair | gala day | galanty show | girly show | Good Friday | great doings | Halloween | Hallowmas | high jinks | Holy Thursday | Holy Week | hootchy-kootchy show | jamboree | kermis | Lady Day | Lammas | Lammas Day | Lammastide | leg show | legit | legitimate stage | Lent | Lententide | light show | magic show | Mardi Gras | Martinmas | Maundy Thursday | Michaelmas | Michaelmas Day | Michaelmastide | off Broadway | off-off-Broadway | ombres chinoises | Palm Sunday | Pancake Day | party | Passion Week | peep show | Pentecost | picnic | playland | puppet show | Quadragesima | Quadragesima Sunday | raree-show | rep show | repertory drama | repertory show | rodeo | Saturnalia | Septuagesima | shadow show | show biz | show business | Shrove Tuesday | sideshow | stage world | stagedom | stageland | stock | strawhat | strawhat circuit | summer stock | the big top | the boards | the footlights | the scenes | the stage | the theater | theater world | theatromania | theatrophobia | Trinity Sunday | Twelfth-day | Twelfth-tide | variety | variety show | vaudeville | vaudeville show | waygoose | wayzgoose | White Sunday | Whitmonday | Whitsun | Whitsunday | Whitsuntide | Whit-Tuesday | Whitweek See Also | disturbance | Fat Tuesday | festival | fete | Mardi Gras | midway | show Carnival In Webster's Dictionary \Car"ni*val\, n. [It. carnevale, prob. for older
carnelevale, prop., the putting away of meat; fr. L. caro,
carnis, flesh + levare to take away, lift up, fr. levis
light.]
1. A festival celebrated with merriment and revelry in Roman
Gatholic countries during the week before Lent, esp. at
Rome and Naples, during a few days (three to ten) before
Lent, ending with Shrove Tuesday.
The carnival at Venice is everywhere talked of.
--Addison.
2. Any merrymaking, feasting, or masquerading, especially
when overstepping the bounds of decorum; a time of riotous
excess. --Tennyson.
He saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the
dead their carnival --Byron.
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