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/kˈærəl/ /kˈɛrəl/ Listen

noun

Carol n.

A round dance. (Obs.)

A song of joy, exultation, or mirth; a lay. "The costly feast, the carol, and the dance." "It was the carol of a bird."

A song of praise of devotion; as, a Christmas or Easter carol. "Heard a carol, mournful, holy." "In the darkness sing your carol of high praise."

Joyful music, as of a song. "I heard the bells on Christmans Day Their old, familiar carol play."

Carrol, Carol n. (Arch.) A small closet or inclosure built against a window on the inner side, to sit in for study. The word was used as late as the 16th century. The term carrel, of the same has largely superseded its use. "A bay window may thus be called a carol."

verb

Carol v. t. (past & past part. caroled or carolled; pres. part. caroling or carolling)

To praise or celebrate in song. "The Shepherds at their festivals Carol her goodness."

To sing, especially with joyful notes. "Hovering swans... carol sounds harmonious."

Carol v. i. To sing; esp. to sing joyfully; to warble. "And carol of love's high praise." "The gray linnets carol from the hill."

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Etymology of 'Carol'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Carol" Quotes from Famous Books

... store have we, Yet we carol joyously; Mortals, fly from doubt and sorrow, God provideth for ...

— Fanny, the Flower-Girl • Selina Bunbury

... silence. The blight will pass, and I'll break out again. I know it. I don't intend to be held down. I can't be held down. I haven't the remotest idea of how it's going to happen, but I'm going to love life again, and be happy, and carol out like a meadow-lark on a blue and breezy April morning. It may not come to-morrow, and it may not come the next day. But it's going to come. And knowing it's going to come, I can afford to sit ...

— The Prairie Child • Arthur Stringer

... and the barge with oar and sail 265 Moved from the brink, like some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy webs. Long stood Sir Bedivere Revolving many memories, till the hull 270 Look'd one black dot against the verge of dawn, And on the ...

— Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson • William Wordsworth and Alfred Lord Tennyson

... writing in Christmas week, and I have read for the tenth time "A Christmas Carol," by Dickens, that amazing allegory in which the hard, bitter facts of life are involved in a beautiful myth, that wizard's caldron in which humor bubbles and from which rise phantom figures of religion and poetry. Can any one doubt that if this story ...

— The Guide to Reading - The Pocket University Volume XXIII • Edited by Dr. Lyman Abbott, Asa Don Dickenson, and Others

... yet distinctly seen. Save darkened Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously steep; and drawing near, There breathes a living fragrance from the shore, Of flowers yet fresh with childhood; on the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar, Or chirps the grasshopper one good-night carol more; ...

— Childe Harold's Pilgrimage • Lord Byron

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