carnival

carnival is a 8-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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 (three to ten) before Lent, ending with Shrove Tuesday. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 17 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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 (three to ten) before Lent, ending with Shrove Tuesday.
2. noun. Any merrymaking, feasting, or masquerading, especially when overstepping the bounds of decorum; a time of riotous excess.
3. noun. a festival marked by merrymaking and processions
4. noun. a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc.

   Synonyms: fair, funfair

5. noun. a frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a large public entertainment

   "it was so funny it was a circus"

   "the whole occasion had a carnival atmosphere"

   Synonyms: circus

Synonyms

fair, funfair, circus

Common word forms

carnivals, carnivaler, carnivaller

Words from these letters

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