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Carnival

Carnival Definition And Meaning
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.

Carnival Definition And Meaning

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

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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