Word Meanings - CARNIVAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

prop., the putting away of meat; fr. L. caro, carnis, flesh _ levare 1. A festival celebrated with merriment and revelry in Roman Gatholic countries during the week before Lent, esp. at Rome and Naples, during a few days before Lent, ending with

Additional info about word: CARNIVAL

prop., the putting away of meat; fr. L. caro, carnis, flesh _ levare 1. A festival celebrated with merriment and revelry in Roman Gatholic countries during the week before Lent, esp. at Rome and Naples, during a few days before Lent, ending with Shrove Tuesday. The carnival at Venice is everywhere talked of. Addison. 2. Any merrymaking, feasting, or masquerading, especially when overstepping the bounds of decorum; a time of riotous excess. Tennyson. He saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival Byron.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CARNIVAL)

• Jollification
• Revelry
• festivity
• conviviality
• fun
• carnival
• merrymaking
• Jubilee
• Holiday
• feast
• rejoicing
• merriment
• revel
• paean
• high-day

Related words: (words related to CARNIVAL)

• PAEAN
  1. An ancient Greek hymn in honor of Apollo as a healing deity, and, later, a song addressed to other deities. 2. Any loud and joyous song; a song of triumph. Dryden. "Public pæans of congratulation." De Quincey. 3. See Pæon.
• REVELLENT
  Causing revulsion; revulsive. -- n.
• REVELATION
  1. The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them. 2. That which is revealed. The act of revealing divine truth. That which is revealed by God to man; esp., the Bible. By revelation he made known unto
• MERRYMAKING
  Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.
• CARNIVAL
  prop., the putting away of meat; fr. L. caro, carnis, flesh _ levare 1. A festival celebrated with merriment and revelry in Roman Gatholic countries during the week before Lent, esp. at Rome and Naples, during a few days before Lent, ending with
• JUBILEE
  Every fiftieth year, being the year following the completion of each seventh sabbath of years, at which time all the slaves of Hebrew blood were liberated, and all lands which had been alienated during 2. The joyful commemoration held
• REVELATOR
  One who makes a revelation; a revealer.
• HOLIDAY
  A day fixed by law for suspension of business; a legal holiday. Note: In the United States legal holidays, so called, are determined by law, commonly by the statutes of the several States. The holidays most generally observed are: the 22d day of
• REVELATE
  To reveal. Frith. Barnes.
• REVELRY
  The act of engaging in a revel; noisy festivity; reveling. And pomp and feast and revelry. Milton.
• JOLLIFICATION
  A merrymaking; noisy festivity. We have had a jollification or so together. Sir W. Scott.
• REVELMENT
  The act of reveling.
• MERRYMAKER
  One who makes merriment or indulges in conviviality; a jovial comrade.
• REVELOUS
  Fond of festivity; given to merrymaking or reveling. Companionable and revelous was she. Chaucer.
• REJOICINGLY
  With joi or exultation.
• FEAST
  festival, F. fête, fr. L. festum, pl. festa, fr. festus joyful, 1. A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. Ex. xiii. 6. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year
• FEASTER
  1. One who fares deliciously. 2. One who entertains magnificently. Johnson.
• REVEL
  See REVEAL
• REJOICING
  1. Joy; gladness; delight. We should particularly express our rejoicing by love and charity to our neighbors. R. Nelson. 2. The expression of joy or gladness. The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous. Ps. cxviii.
• FESTIVITY
  1. The condition of being festive; social joy or exhilaration of spirits at an entertaintment; joyfulness; gayety. The unrestrained festivity of the rustic youth. Bp. Hurd. 2. A festival; a festive celebration. Sir T. Browne.
• REJOICE
  To feel joy; to experience gladness in a high degree; to have pleasurable satisfaction; to be delighted. "O, rejoice beyond a common joy." Shak. I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy. Ps. xxxi. 7. Syn. To delight; joy; exult; triumph. (more info)
• OUTFEAST
  To exceed in feasting.
• DIAMOND ANNIVERSARY; DIAMOND JUBILEE
  One celebrated upon the completion of sixty, or, according to some, seventy-five, years from the beginning of the thing commemorated.