Carnival

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Any of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent.

   “Carnival of Brazil”

2. isim A festive occasion marked by parades and sometimes special foods and other entertainment.
3. isim 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.”

4. isim A context in which transgression or inversion of the social order is given temporary license. Derived from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin.

   “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.”

5. isim A gaudily chaotic situation.

   “a carnival of idiocy”

6. fiil To participate in a carnival.
7. fiil To move about playfully or wildly.

   “The spot is a marvel of beauty and taste; and here, where dust and sun carnivaled for so many years, thousands of every class congregate to listen each evening to music discoursed for the amusement of oi polloi.”

8. özel isim The season just before the beginning of the Western Christian season of Lent.
9. isim Alternative form of carnival; especially in the sense "any of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent."

   “To the statement above we may, of course, add that a far greater number have never had the “luck” of seeing a Continental Fair;— the Carnivals of Italy, of France,—a Russian Fair,—or the Carnivals and Jahrmarkts of Germany.”