Meaning of CARNIVAL
| Pronunciation: | | 'kârnuvul
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- [n] a festival marked by merrymaking and processions
- [n] a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc.
- [n] 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"
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| | Synonyms: | | circus, fair, funfair |
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| | See Also: | | disturbance, Fat Tuesday, festival, fete, Mardi Gras, midway, show | |
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| | Definition: | | Carnival
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Car"ni*val\, n. [It. carnevale, prob. for older
carnelevale, prop., the putting away of meat; fr. L. caro,
carnis, flesh + levare to take away, lift up, fr. levis
light.]
1. A festival celebrated with merriment and revelry in Roman
Gatholic countries during the week before Lent, esp. at
Rome and Naples, during a few days (three to ten) before
Lent, ending with Shrove Tuesday.
The carnival at Venice is everywhere talked of.
--Addison.
2. Any merrymaking, feasting, or masquerading, especially
when overstepping the bounds of decorum; a time of riotous
excess. --Tennyson.
He saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the
dead their carnival --Byron.
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| | Definition: | | Dreaming that you are at the carnival, represents falsehoods and deception. If you observe freakish sights, then it means that there is a lack of harmony in your domestic life. Much sorrow will arise in what were thought to be pleasant times.
Dreaming that you are on a carnival ride, suggests that you are going in circles. It may also symbolize cheap thrills.
Dreaming that you run away with the carnival means that you will be involved in or closely connected to the entertainment field. |
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| | Related Terms: | | Advent, Allhallowmas, Allhallows, Allhallowtide, Annunciation, Annunciation Day, Ascension Day, Ash Wednesday, banquet, blowout, Broadway, burlesque, burlesque show, Candlemas, Candlemas Day, Christmas, circus, coochie show, Corpus Christi, do, drama, Easter, Easter Monday, Easter Saturday, Easter Sunday, Eastertide, Ember days, entertainment industry, Epiphany, fair, fantoccini, feast, festival, festive occasion, festivity, fete, field day, fiesta, floor show, gala, gala affair, gala day, galanty show, girly show, Good Friday, great doings, Halloween, Hallowmas, high jinks, Holy Thursday, Holy Week, hootchy-kootchy show, jamboree, kermis, Lady Day, Lammas, Lammas Day, Lammastide, leg show, legit, legitimate stage, Lent, Lententide, light show, magic show, Mardi Gras, Martinmas, Maundy Thursday, Michaelmas, Michaelmas Day, Michaelmastide, off Broadway, off-off-Broadway, ombres chinoises, Palm Sunday, Pancake Day, party, Passion Week, peep show, Pentecost, picnic, playland, puppet show, Quadragesima, Quadragesima Sunday, raree-show, rep show, repertory drama, repertory show, rodeo, Saturnalia, Septuagesima, shadow show, show biz, show business, Shrove Tuesday, sideshow, stage world, stagedom, stageland, stock, strawhat, strawhat circuit, summer stock, the big top, the boards, the footlights, the scenes, the stage, the theater, theater world, theatromania, theatrophobia, Trinity Sunday, Twelfth-day, Twelfth-tide, variety, variety show, vaudeville, vaudeville show, waygoose, wayzgoose, White Sunday, Whitmonday, Whitsun, Whitsunday, Whitsuntide, Whit-Tuesday, Whitweek |
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