Carol

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A round dance accompanied by singing.
2. isim A ballad or song of joy.

   “The humane mortals want their winter heere / No night is now with hymme or carroll bleſt; / Therefore the Moone (the gouerneſſe of floods) / Pale in her anger, waſhes all the aire; / That Rheumaticke diſeaſes do abound.”

3. isim A (usually traditional) religious or secular song sung at Christmastime.

   “They sang a Christmas carol.”

4. isim A small closet or enclosure built against the inner side of a window of a monastery's cloister, to sit in for study.

   “An exquisite south-east door is preserved; it is round-headed, of four orders, with a foliated label. A canopied carol or monk's seat, a Pointed crocketed arch within a square case, is seen beside it, succeeded on the south wall by an arcade of trefoiled arches with toothed mouldings.”

5. fiil To participate in a carol (a round dance accompanied by singing).

   “You might see the townsmen and the ladies carolling in the squares, squires and serjans and young girls singing; there is no street and no house to be found there that is not adorned with hangings of gold and silk.”

6. fiil To sing in a joyful manner.

   “And when the ſtubborne ſtroke of ſtronger ſtounds, / Has ſomewhat ſlackt the tenor of thy ſtring; / Of loue and luſtihead tho maiſt thou ſing, / And carroll lowde, and leade the Millers rounde, [...]”

7. fiil To sing carols; especially to sing Christmas carols in a group.

   “Christmas morning was welcomed by services in some churches. Everyone in the Bingham house, along with other church members, went carolling at five o'clock in the morning, which culminated in the Christmas message at the church, delivered by the pastor. Everyone's heart was blessed.”

8. fiil To praise or celebrate in song.
9. fiil To sing (a song) cheerfully.

   “Why do the Delian Palms incline their Boughs, / Self-mov'd; and hov'ring Swans, their Throats releas'd / From native Silence, carol Sounds harmonious?”

10. özel isim A female given name from the Germanic languages, popular in the middle of the 20th century.

    “Carol is fifteen years old and I'm sixteen. Her name is really Caroline, but she hates it and wants to be called Carol - it's so much prettier.”

11. özel isim A male given name from the Germanic languages.

    “This table shows the curious fact that little Prince Carol of Roumania (who is at once the great-grandson and the third cousin of Queen Victoria) has a better hereditary right to the British Throne than Her Majesty.”