carnival
See also: Carnival
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French carnaval, from Italian carnevale, possibly from the Latin phrase carnem levāmen (“meat dismissal”). Other scholars suggest Latin carnuālia (“meat-based country feast”) or carrus nāvālis (“boat wagon; float”) instead.[1] Doublet of carnaval.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɑːnɪvəl/, [ˈkɑːnɪvl̩]
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɑɹnɪvəl/, [ˈkɑɹnɪvl̩]; /kɑɹnəˈvɑl/ (referring to pre-Lenten festivals in various Romance-speaking countries)
Audio (US) (file)
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈkaːnɪvəl/, [ˈkaːnɪvl̩]
Noun edit
carnival (plural carnivals)
- Any of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent.
- A festive occasion marked by parades and sometimes special foods and other entertainment.
- 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
- 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.
- (US) A traveling amusement park, called a funfair in British English.
- We all got to ride the merry-go-round when they brought their carnival to town.
- When the carnival came to town, every one wanted some cotton candy.
- (sociology) A context in which transgression or inversion of the social order is given temporary license. Derived from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin.
- 2010, Gulnara Karimova, “Jackass, South Park, and 'Everyday' Culture”, in Studies in Popular Culture, volume 33, page 37:
- The social environment contains the ambiguous traces of carnival: it resists the ideology of capitalism and, at the same time, reproduces the capitalist social order.
- (figurative) A gaudily chaotic situation.
- a carnival of idiocy
Coordinate terms edit
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Japanese: カーニバル
Translations edit
festival held just before the beginning of Lent
festive occasion marked by parades
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traveling amusement park
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References edit
- ^ Ottorino Pianigiani (1907) “Carnevale, Carnovale”, in Il Vocabolario Etimologico[1] (in Italian), archived from the original on 2018-09-18
Further reading edit
- carnival on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Mardi Gras on Wikipedia.Wikipedia