carnival
see also: Carnival
Pronunciation
Carnival
Proper noun
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see also: Carnival
Pronunciation
- (GA) IPA: /ˈkæɹnɪvəl/, /kɑɹnəˈvɑl/ (referring to specific festivals in various countries)
carnival (plural carnivals)
- Any of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent.
- A festive occasion marked by parades and sometimes special foods and other entertainment.
- (US) A traveling amusement park, called a funfair in British English.
- We all got to ride the merry-go-round when they brought their carnival to town.
- When the carnival came to town, every one wanted some cotton candy.
- French: carnaval
- German: Karneval, Fasching, Fastnacht
- Italian: carnevale
- Portuguese: carnaval
- Russian: карнава́л
- Spanish: carnaval
Carnival
Proper noun
- The season just before the beginning of the Western Christian season of Lent.
carnival
- Alternative form of carnival; especially in the sense "any of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent."
- 1873 April, R. H. Horne, The Great Fairs and Markets of Europe, John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell (editors), The Eclectic Magazine, New Series Volume 17: January—June 1873, page 436 ↗
- To the statement above we may, of course, add that a far greater number have never had the “luck” of seeing a Continental Fair;— the Carnivals of Italy, of France,—a Russian Fair,—or the Carnivals and Jahrmarkts of Germany.
- 1873 April, R. H. Horne, The Great Fairs and Markets of Europe, John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell (editors), The Eclectic Magazine, New Series Volume 17: January—June 1873, page 436 ↗
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