[ UK /kˈɑːnɪvə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˈkɑɹnəvəɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a festival marked by merrymaking and processions
  2. a frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a large public entertainment
    the whole occasion had a carnival atmosphere
    it was so funny it was a circus
  3. a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc.
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How To Use carnival In A Sentence

  • Prestwich Carnival at the weekend will hold a large parade and carnival in St Mary's Park and through Prestwich, which will be promoting green transport.
  • Ondaatje's novels prominently reflected hybrid language and multi-language voice, Mosaic Genre, Style Simulation, and Parody, make the novels be a carnival square.
  • Even in the darkness of a damp February night there was a carnival atmosphere.
  • Mansfield Park has seen such an exodus of players during the summer that the turnstiles must have been rotating at the speed of a carnival ride.
  • Liminal phases of rites of passage, carnivals, and fêtes are often pervaded by images of chaos and misrule.
  • Minneapolis-St. Paul is a winter carnival of skating, skiing, and shopping
  • September 3, 2008 at 6:26 pm wish I cood but there seems to a carnival goin awn in my hed tonite, the steem caliope goin full blast Dee dee dee dee deet dee dee dee, and the midway barkers hollerin Step Rite up, just one thin dime thass right frens , and the belss on the carosel binging and the gurls shreilin on de ferris wheel, and I kin even smell the poppycorms. I can has chiropractor? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • The Carnival I used to call Mardi Gras is the greatest fun fest available. OpEdNews - Quicklink: Brazilian Carnival the Greatest Street Carnival on Earth
  • There was even an ongoing carnival and lots of gangs of women on hen dos, wearing rubbish outfits (and stupid deeley-bopper things on their heads), with even more rubbish shoes.
  • Yet the realist vision shifts to the phantasmagoric, as spectator and spectacle undergo carnivalesque reversals and interpenetration, in their darkest and most violent manifestations.
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