carnival
(noun) a festival marked by merrymaking and processions
carnival, fair, funfair
(noun) a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc.
circus, carnival
(noun) a frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a large public entertainment; “it was so funny it was a circus”; “the whole occasion had a carnival atmosphere”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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.
Carnival
The season just before the beginning of the Western Christian season of Lent.
Carnival (countable and uncountable, plural Carnivals)
Alternative form of carnival; especially in the sense "any of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent."
Source: Wiktionary
Car"ni*val, n. Etym: [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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 February 2025
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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