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Definition: Funfair |
FunfairNoun1. A commercially operated park with stalls and shows for amusement. 2. 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. |
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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)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Carnival."
Synonyms: FunfairSynonyms: amusement park (n), carnival (n), fair (n), pleasure ground (n). (additional references) |
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Lyrics | Oh she's the heart of the funfair, (Joyride; performing artist: Roxette) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Five O'Clock Funfair (1965) | |
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| "Fairground" by Ben Jones Commentary: "Pictures of a funfair at night. ." |
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| "Funfair" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Funfair" is used about 43 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) | 100% | 43 | 52,181 |
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Expression using "funfair": noisy funfair. Additional references. | |
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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 |
funfair | 21 |
funfair picture | 3 |
funfair ride | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "funfair"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | عيد سوقي. (various references) | |
Danish | forlystelsespark (amusement park, leisure park, theme park), rekreativt grønt område (amusement park, leisure park), park (park). (various references) | |
Dutch | recreatiepark (amusement park, leisure park, theme park), amusementspark (amusement park, leisure park). (various references) | |
French | parc de loisirs. (various references) | |
German | Freizeitpark (amusement park, leisure park, theme park), Vergnügungspark (amusement park), Park (garden, grounds, park), Lustgarten (pleasance). (various references) | |
Greek | λούνα παρκ (amusement park, recreation park). (various references) | |
Italian | parco ricreativo (amusement park, leisure park), parco di divertimenti (amusement park, leisure park, theme park), luna park (amusement park). (various references) | |
Manx | preaban gammanagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | unfairfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | parque de diversões (amusement park). (various references) | |
Spanish | parque de atracciones (amusement park, fair, fairground). (various references) | |
Swedish | tivoli (amusement park), nöjesfält (amusement park, pleasure ground). (various references) | |
Turkish | lunapark (amusement park, fair, pleasure ground), eğlence parkı. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "funfair": funfairs. (additional references) | |
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"Funfair" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fanfair, Fanfani, ffunfair. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ruffian. | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-f-i-n-r-u" | |
-1 letter: unfair. | |
-2 letters: furan, infra. | |
-3 letters: airn, fain, fair, faun, fiar, firn, naif, raff, rain, rani, riff, ruff, ruin, unai. | |
-4 letters: aff, ain, air, ani, arf, fan, far, fin, fir, fun, fur, iff, ran, ria, rif, rin, run, urn. | |
-5 letters: ai, an, ar, fa, if, in, na, nu, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-f-i-n-r-u" | |
+1 letter: funfairs, ruffians. | |
+2 letters: ruffianly. | |
+3 letters: gauffering, ragamuffin, ruffianism. | |
+4 letters: faultfinder, insufflator, ragamuffins, ruffianisms. | |
+5 letters: antidandruff, chauffeuring, faultfinders, insufferable, insufferably, insufflators. | |
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