CARNIVAL • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Carnival

Translators

Dictionaries

Courses

Other

Home

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/kˈɑrnəvəl/ Listen

noun

Carnival n.

A festival celebrated with merriment and revelry in Roman Catholic 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."

Any merrymaking, feasting, or masquerading, especially when overstepping the bounds of decorum; a time of riotous excess. "He saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival"

See images of 'Carnival'

Etymology of 'Carnival'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Carnival" Quotes from Famous Books

... "Oh, carnival of shams! She is 'pious' you say? Then, I'll swear my watch is not safe in my pocket, and I shall sleep with the key of my cameo cabinet tied around my neck. A Paris police would not insure your valuables or mine. The facts forbid that your pen-feathered ...

— St. Elmo • Augusta J. Evans

... frequent letters written in her dear old style, by cases of Italian wines, delicate and rare; exquisite fabrics of the loom, and articles of vertu; and between the letters and the gifts the old people held high carnival after their quaint fashion ...

— His Sombre Rivals • E. P. Roe

... panting Joseph. "That was an amusing carnival farce, my virtuous brother! Farewell! ...

— The Daughter of an Empress • Louise Muhlbach

... his horse plunge, and he merrily kicked and swore at it. He held a little carnival of ...

— The Red Badge of Courage - An Episode of the American Civil War • Stephen Crane

... 1561] When the Estates of Brabant stopped the payment of the principal tax or "Bede," [2] and when the people of Brussels took as a party uniform a costume derived from the carnival, a black cloak covered with red fool's heads, the cardinal, whose red hat was caricatured thereby, stated that nothing less than a republic was aimed at. This was true, though in the anticipation of the nobles, at least, the republic should have a decidedly ...

— The Age of the Reformation • Preserved Smith

More quotes...