CARNIVAL


Meaning of CARNIVAL in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a carnival/festive atmosphere (= when people are celebrating something )

Outside the stadium, there was a carnival atmosphere.

election/carnival etc fever (= great interest or excitement about a particular activity or event )

Soccer fever has been sweeping the nation as they prepare for the World Cup.

funeral/wedding/carnival etc procession

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

atmosphere

As the march swelled to 4,000, a carnival atmosphere swept through the crowd.

Much of the popular carnival atmosphere of traditional democratic politics was eliminated.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Caroline who had moved to a new area was asked by a neighbour to join a committee planning the local summer carnival .

It was as wild as a carnival .

Night fell upon, and spread its funereal pall over, a field of blood where death held unrestrained carnival !

The sounds from the rides and the carnival continued, nothing seemed out of place.

These pictures show some of the things that happened when Fateha, Louise, Anthony and Marlon went to the carnival .

They carried with them galvanic batteries of a type generally used for feats of entertainment at carnivals.

They dismiss synchro as carnival entertainment, what Esther Williams did after she was an athlete.

Yes, there was only the sea and the sky light carnival .

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