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  1. Any of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent.
  2. A festive occasion marked by parades and sometimes special foods and other entertainment.
  3. (US) A traveling amusement park, called a funfair in British English.
  4. (sociology) A context in which transgression or inversion of the social order is given temporary license. Derived from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin.
  5. (figurative) A gaudily chaotic situation.

Verbi

  1. (informal, rare) To participate in a carnival.
  2. (literary) To move about playfully or wildly.

Esimerkit

  • Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
  • We all got to ride the merry-go-round when the brought their carnival to town.
  • When the carnival came to town, every one wanted some cotton candy.

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