carnival
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Is carnival a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (US) A traveling amusement park, called a funfair in British English.Examples: "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."US
2. (sociology) A context in which transgression or inversion of the social order is given temporary license. Derived from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin.Examples: "The social environment contains the ambiguous traces of carnival: it resists the ideology of capitalism and, at the same time, reproduces the capitalist social order."
3. (figurative) A gaudily chaotic situation.Examples: "a carnival of idiocy"figuratively
verb (English)
1. (informal, rare) To participate in a carnival.informalrare
2. (literary) To move about playfully or wildly.Examples: "The spot is a marvel of beauty and taste; and here, where dust and sun carnivaled for so many years, thousands of every class congregate to listen each evening to music discoursed for the amusement of oi polloi."; "Sitting in the Chevy, Saturday night on Main Street carnivaling around her, she told herself that she understood, that Ross had made a mistake, had pre-arranged this celebration for tonight and thought that his date with her was tomorrow."; "A sudden bright white flash exploded before me. A kaleidoscope of silver lines drawn in rapid succession carnivalled in a blizzard of raging energy."literary
Definition source: Wiktionary