carnival
IPA: kˈɑrnʌvʌɫ
noun
- 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.
- (sociology) A context in which transgression or inversion of the social order is given temporary license. Derived from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin.
- The season just before the beginning of the Western Christian season of Lent.
- Alternative form of carnival; especially in the sense "any of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent." [Any of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent.]
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Examples of "carnival" in Sentences
- The biggest event of the year is the annual Carnival.
- After the riots, the Carnival became more restrained.
- The film was adapted for the stage under the title Carnival.
- The column regarding the carnival has unsubstantiated claims.
- The Panamanian Carnival is the second biggest festival in the world.
- Eade represented the VFA in the 1988 Adelaide Bicentennial Carnival.
- It is the venue for the end of the Birmingham International Carnival.
- The theme of the festival is the carnival combined with light eroticism.
- The wedding was broadcast on network coverage of the globe in the carnival.
- The event started with the arrival of the Kingsway carnival parade at midday.