carnival
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2.7
- noun
- /ˈkɑrnɪvəl/
:
feria
- I lost my first tooth at that carnival, biting into a candy apple.
- carnival rides
- traveling carnival
- carnival comes to town
There's bits of it where she joins a traveling carnival.
- There's bits of it where she joins a traveling carnival.
- And, and one day in the jungle, I helped some people set up a game during a carnival, a dart game.
- He he goes to carnivals and tries all these like different carnival foods and some of them are just ridiculous.
- And I'll be Grammy and you be Tommy Tomasi, the guy who owned the meat store and got Grammys, daddy tickets to the fireman's carnival.
- These are the carnival firecrackers, spicy sweet sticks, pineapple, mango, lime and passion fruit flavour all with a hint of chili.
- So it has that like whole theme park carnival.
Examples
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I was thinking it would be cool to have a carnival.
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I worked at a carnival for a very short time when I was quite young.
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If I could, I still want to take the girls to the carnival tomorrow night.
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You can take me to the carnival tomorrow.
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I once got kicked off a carnival ride for crying.
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But every August, a carnival came to town and set up its flashy rides and impossible-to-win games there.
Academic text (2011) -
Claudia, Louis, and Lestat, dressed in the same clothes, walked through a raucous carnival with sideshows.
Fiction book (1994) -
The carnival is filled with colorful rides, games, and delicious food for everyone to enjoy.
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We spent hours at the carnival playing games and eating cotton candy.
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Every summer, the town hosts a carnival with exciting attractions and lively entertainment.
Synonyms
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1.0
A public event with rides, games, and shops
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2.5
A temporary event with rides and games for people to enjoy
A traveling fair with rides and games that sets up temporarily
How Temporary
Surface Forms
Etymology
Carnival comes from the old phrase carne vale, which means 'farewell to meat'. Because the big celebrations at that time included bright fairs and travelling shows, the word later came to mean a fun travelling fair with rides and games.