Definitionen
1.NounAny of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent."Carnival of Brazil; Venice Carnival"
2.NounA festive occasion marked by parades and sometimes special foods and other entertainment.
3.NounA 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."
4.NounA context in which transgression or inversion of the social order is given temporary license. Derived from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin.
5.NounA gaudily chaotic situation."a carnival of idiocy"
6.VerbTo participate in a carnival.
7.VerbTo move about playfully or wildly.