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Definition: Carnival |
CarnivalNoun1. A festival marked by merrymaking and processions. 2. 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". 3. A traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "carnival" was first used: 1549. (references) |
Etymology: Carnival \Car"ni*val\, noun. [Italian carnevale, probably for older carnelevale, prop., the putting away of meat; from Latin caro, carnis, flesh levare to take away, lift up, from levis light.]. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream that you are participating in a carnival, portends that you are soon to enjoy some unusual pleasure or recreation. A carnival when masks are used, or when incongruous or clownish figures are seen, implies discord in the home; business will be unsatisfactory and love unrequited. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Fine Arts | The term -- also refers to the merry-go-rounds, ferris wheels, side shows, and amusements at outdoor fairs. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Carnival The season immediately preceding Lent; shrove-tide. Ducange gives the word carne-levale. (Modern Italian, carnovále; Spanish and French, carnaval.) Italis, carnevale, carnovale, carnaval. Quidam scriptores Itali "carne-vale" dictum putant, quasi carne vale (good-by meat); sed id etymon non probat Octav. Ferrarius. Cangius ... appellasse Gallos existimat, carn-a-val, quod sonat caro abscedit ... [We are referred to a charter, dated 1195, in which occurs the word carne-lcvamen, and a quotation is given in which occurs the phrase in carnis levamen ].- Ducange, vol. ii. p. 222. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A carnival parade is a public celebration, combining some elements of a circus and public street party, generally during the carnival season.
The Carnival Season refers to a specific holiday period. Its celebration begins as "Mardi Gras" (French for "Fat Tuesday") the day before Ash Wednesday, a day of celebration and partying before the rigours of Lent's 40 days of fasting and sacrifice begin. It ends on Shrove Tuesday or, sometimes on Pinata Weekend, the first Saturday and Sunday of Lent.
Places especially noted for elaborate Carnival celebrations include Rio de Janeiro, Salvador de Bahia and Olinda in Brazil, Venice in Italy, New Orleans and Mobile, Alabama in the USA, Trinidad and Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Cádiz in Spain.
In England the leading carnivals are Notting Hill Carnival in August (reputedly the world's largest), and Bridgwater in November. In Germany Cologne, Duesseldorf, Mainz and Munich are well-known for their Carnival celebrations, parades and costumed balls which, particularly in southern Germany, are called Fasching.
Carnival is also celebrated in the southern Catholic provinces of the Netherlands Noord-Brabant and Limburg.
When Lent ends, the Saturday following Holy Week is celebrated in a festival in Murcia, Spain. Called the Sardine's Funeral Parade it marks the end of the period when it is mandatory to eat fish and vegetables only.
See also Mardi Gras, List of festivals, Fair.
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Fun fairs
A temporary (often annual) amusement park with mobile rides etc. is called a fun fair (also written funfair) or carnival.
Netherlands
See also Circus (performing art).
- Leiden, 2 and 3 October
- Tilburg, one week in summer (site in Dutch)
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Mardi Gras (French for "Fat Tuesday") is the day before Ash Wednesday, and is also called "Shrove Tuesday" or Carnival ("car-nee-VAHL" elsewhere but in New Orleans "CAR-na-val"). It is a celebration that is held just before the beginning of the Christian liturgical season of Lent.
Carnival's most famous city is Rio de Janeiro Brazil. Please expand on festivities. Like Rio, many other cities in Iberian and Ibero-American cultures have very important Carnival celebrations. Please list some.
New Orleans
New Orleans Mardi Gras is particularly well-known. The New Orleans Carnival season starts on Twelfth Night (which is the religious Feast of the Epiphany), January 6. The season of balls (some of them in costume) and King Cake parties begin on that date, as well smaller parades. From about 2 weeks before Mardi Gras Day on, there is at least one good sized parade every day, which tend to get larger and more elaborate as Mardi Gras Day approaches. In the final week of Carnival numerous events large and small occur throughout New Orleans and surrounding communities. Many young tourists center their visits on a small portion of upper Bourbon Street and the French Quarter. The Mardi Gras celebrations include parades organized by Carnival Krewes. Krewe float riders toss throws to the crowds; the most common throws are strings of cheap colorful beads, dubloons (aluminium discs usually impressed with the Krewe logo), decorated plastic throw cups, and small inexpensive toys. To New Orleanians, Mardi Gras refers only to the final and most elaborate day of the Carnival Season; out of town visitors tend to refer to the entire Carnival as "Mardi Gras". Some locals have thus started to refer to the final day of Carnival as Mardi Gras Day (technically redundant) to avoid confusion.
History
Mardi Gras was brought to Louisiana by early French settlers. The first record of the holiday being marked in Louisiana is 1699. The starting date of festivities in New Orleans is unknown, but an account from 1743 notes that the custom of Carnival balls was already established by that date. Processions and masking in the streets on Mardi Gras Day took place, were sometimes prohibited by law, and were quickly renewed whenever such restrictions were lifted or little enforced.On Mardi Gras of 1857 the Mystick Krewe of Comus held its first parade. This was neither (as has sometimes been mistakenly asserted) the beginning New Orleans Mardi Gras nor the first New Orleans Mardi Gras parade, but it did usher in a new era of more organized Carnival festivities. It started a number of continuing traditions, and is considered the first Carnival Krewe in the modern sense.
The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras in Sydney, Australia, is a well-known pride parade.
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Synonyms: CarnivalSynonyms: circus (n), fair (n), funfair (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Festivity, merrymaking; party; (social gathering); blowout, hullabaloo, hoedown, bat, bum, bust, clambake, donation party, fish fry, jamboree, kantikoy, nautch, randy, squantum, tear, Turnerfest, yule log; fete, festival, gala, ridotto; revels, revelry, reveling; carnival, brawl, saturnalia, high jinks; feast, banquet; (food); regale, symposium, wassail; carouse, carousal; jollification, junket, wake, Irish wake, picnic, fete champetre, regatta, field day; treat. |
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Crosswords: Carnival |
| English words defined with "carnival": barker ♦ circus ♦ midway. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "carnival": Beppo ♦ Cemetery, CIRCUS LABORER ♦ Halgaver ♦ Masche-croute ♦ SUPERVISOR, CIRCUS, SUPERVISOR, RIDE ASSEMBLY ♦ WEIGHT GUESSER. (references) |
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Screenplays | This is a carnival. There's a big difference (Roustabout; writing credit: Allan Weiss; Anthony Lawrence) You can't outsmart carnival folk (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) We could use a nut like you down at the carnival. Ever bite the head off a chicken (Carpool; writing credit: Don Rhymer) Master Shake told me to go in the freezer, because there was a carnival in there (Aqua Teen Hunger Force; writing credit: Matt Maiellaro; Dave Willis) | |
Lyrics | In a carnival (Carnival; performing artist: Natalie Merchant) In that great street carnival (Carnival; performing artist: Natalie Merchant) And the piano sounds like a carnival ("Piano Man"; performing artist: Billy Joel) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Carnival (2000) Malatesta's Carnival of Blood (1973) Carnival of Blood (1970) Thieves' Carnival (1959) Carnival in Quebec (1957) | |
Song Titles | Carnival (performing artist: Natalie Merchant) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Women in costumes at carnival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Main Street, during Sweet Pea Carnival, Bozeman, Mont. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Golden carnival. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Upper Saranac Lake, N.Y., midwinter carnival, the ice fortress (after the thaw). Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | An outdoor carnival comes to the coal mining communities once a year. Granville, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Boy shooting during carnival at firemens' convention, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | 3rd Army carnival, Coblenz on the Rhine, Germany, April 23-27, 1919. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Rex Parade Carnival, 1913. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Original Nashville Students combined with Gideon's Big Minstrel Carnival. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Oliver Scott's Big Minstrel Carnival. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "A Night At the Carnival #1" by Anthony Commentary: "Just some photo I snapped at the local carnival." | "Carnival Time 2" by Igor Beres Commentary: "Carnival in Mexico (E6) developed as C 41." |
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George Meredith | The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Everything being an expanded carnival, there is no longer any carnival |
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Economic History | Bolivia | The devil dances at the annual carnival of Oruro are one of the great folkloric events of South America, as is the lesser known carnival at Tarabuco. (references) |
Panama | Brightly colored national dress is worn during local festivals and the pre-Lenten carnival season, especially for traditional folk dances like the tamborito. (references) | |
Bahamas | The Bahamas remained a premier port of call for major carriers such as Carnival, Royal Caribbean Line, Holland America Line, Norwegian Cruise Line and Disney, whose growing confidence and interest in The Bahamas was highlighted by added capacity and an increased number of calls. (references) | |
Human Rights | Barbados | A joint unit with the BDF also was active during the year, including during the annual "Crop Over" carnival period. (references) |
Saint Kitts and Nevis | However, there were occasional allegations of excessive use of force by the police, particularly during the annual Carnival celebration and at other special events. (references) | |
Travel | Trinidad | NOTE: Carnival Monday and Tuesday (the Monday and Tuesday preceding Ash Wednesday) are not official public holidays, but almost all businesses are closed. (references) |
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| "Carnival" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 49.75% of the time. "Carnival" is used about 199 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 49.75% | 99 | 32,870 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 38.19% | 76 | 38,217 |
| Noun (proper) | 12.06% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Total | 100.00% | 199 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Taiwan | Carnival Textile Industrial Corp | USA | Carnival Corporation |
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Expressions using "carnival": brazilian carnival ♦ carnival costume ♦ carnival procession. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "carnival": carnival-like, carnival-style, carnival-time, carnival-type. | |
Ending with "carnival": festival-cum-carnival. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
carnival cruise | 10,137 | carnival dc | 158 |
carnival cruise line | 5,670 | carnival venice | 155 |
carnival | 4,536 | trinidad carnival | 148 |
rio carnival | 1,374 | carnival paradise | 128 |
carnival conquest | 1,297 | rio de janeiro carnival | 127 |
shoes carnival | 1,009 | carnival fantasy | 123 |
carnival game | 548 | carnival sensation | 107 |
carnival glass | 488 | carnival cruise discount | 97 |
carnival of brazil | 434 | caribbean carnival dc | 96 |
carnival cruise ship | 341 | carnival cruise.com | 87 |
carnival triumph | 333 | carnival inspiration | 86 |
carnival pride | 313 | carnival prize | 77 |
carnival supply | 290 | carnival jubilee | 76 |
carnival ride | 277 | carnival in brazil | 76 |
carnival legend | 271 | carnival cruises.com | 71 |
carnival victory | 252 | brazilian carnival | 66 |
carnival daisy electric | 188 | carnival celebration | 65 |
carnival destiny | 183 | carnival miami | 64 |
carnival spirit | 172 | carnival depression | 62 |
carnival glory | 162 | carnival picture | 61 |
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| Language | Translations for "carnival"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | panair (fair, kermis), karnaval. (various references) | |
Arabic | مهرجان (celebration, festival, festivity, gala), مدينة ملاهي متنقلة, حفل كبير كرنفال. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | карнавал. (various references) | |
Chinese | 狂欢节, 嘉年華會 . (various references) | |
Czech | karneval. (various references) | |
Danish | karneval. (various references) | |
Dutch | carnaval. (various references) | |
Esperanto | karnavalo. (various references) | |
Farsi | کارناوال , کاروان شادی , جشن (Celebration, Ceremony, Jubilation, Jubilee). (various references) | |
Finnish | karnevaali. (various references) | |
French | carnaval. (various references) | |
German | Karneval (mardi gras), fasching (fasching). (various references) | |
Greek | Καρνεβάλι (Carnival 2), καρναβάλια αποκριάσ, καρναβάλι, πανηγύρι (carnival 1, fair, feast, festival, festivity, fete), αποκριά. (various references) | |
Hebrew | קרנבל. (various references) | |
Hungarian | karnevál, farsang. (various references) | |
Italian | carnevale. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | カード会員 (car heater, carbine, card holder, cardmember, carnation, Carnegie, Carnegie Hall, Carnegie Mellon, Kaaba, kernel). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | カーニバル . (various references) | |
Korean | 사육제. (various references) | |
Manx | giense Innid, feish (assembly, festival, fete). (various references) | |
Papiamen | karnaval. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arnivalcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | carnaval. (various references) | |
Romanian | carnaval (pageant), petrecere (amusement, at home, bacchanalia, blow out, bout, carousal, conviviality, diversion, do, entertainment, feast, festival, festivity, fling, frolic, gaiety, game, garden party, jamboree, jollity, junket, merry making, party, spree). (various references) | |
Russian | карнавал. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | poklade (fancy ball, fancy dress ball), karneval. (various references) | |
Spanish | carnaval. (various references) | |
Swedish | karneval (rag). (various references) | |
Turkish | karnaval (masquerader), gezici sirk veya fuar, festival (fair, feast, festival, festive, festivity), eğlence (amusement, bash, beano, blow out, conviviality, distraction, diversion, entertainment, festivity, fete, frolic, fun, gag, gaiety, high jinks, jamboree, jollification, jolliness, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, party, pastime, play, plaything, racket, recreation, recreational, rejoicing, relaxation, revel, saturnalia, setout, sport), büyük spor olayı, şenlik (convivial, conviviality, festival, festivity, fete, fiesta, gaiety, gala, glorification, jubilation, rejoicing). (various references) | |
Turkmen | karnawal. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | карнавал (fancy ball), масниця (shrovetide). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cuộc vui trá hình sự quá xá, sự lạm dụng (abuse, overuse), sự bừa bãi (disorder, disorderliness, indiscrimination, messiness). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | carnivorus, caro. (various references) |
| Italian | 900-Modern | carnevale. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "carnival": carnivals. (additional references) | |
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"Carnival" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Carinhall, carnaval, Carnavalet, Carnavel, carneal, carneval, carnica, carniivel, Carnivale, Charniak, Conival, cranical, Cuanavale, Karnival, parzival. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "carnival" (pronounced kÄ"rnuvul) |
| 4 | -u v u l | festival. |
| 3 | -v u l | anvil, approval, archival, arrival, arval, bedevil, bevel, civil, daredevil, devil, disapproval, dishevel, drivel, evil, gavel, gravel, grovel, hovel, survival, swivel, interval, larval, level, marvel, medieval, multilevel, naval, navel, novel, oval, primeval, Ravel, removal, retrieval, revel, revival, rival, servile, shovel, shrivel, travel, uncivil, unravel, upheaval, weevil. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-l-n-r-v" | |
-1 letter: carinal, cranial. | |
-2 letters: acinar, arnica, carina, carlin, carnal, caviar, crania, narial, racial. | |
-3 letters: acari, anvil, arval, avail, avian, cairn, canal, cavil, clavi, craal, invar, laari, lanai, larva, liana, linac, naira, naric, naval, navar, nival, ravin, rival, varia, varna, vicar, vinal, vinca, viral. | |
-4 letters: airn, alan, alar, anal, anil, aria, aril, cain, carl, carn, clan. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-l-n-r-v" | |
+1 letter: carnivals, navicular. | |
+2 letters: naviculars. | |
+3 letters: acriflavine, cavaliering, clairvoyant. | |
+4 letters: acriflavines, avuncularity, clairvoyance, clairvoyants. | |
+5 letters: clairvoyances, clairvoyantly, galvanometric, intravascular, overbalancing, prevocational, valedictorian, vernacularism. | |
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