as in festival
a time or program of special events and entertainment in honor of something
the town's annual Fourth of July carnival
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Recent Examples of carnival
Curaçao Tourist Board, AFAR Media, 26 Feb. 2025
Something seems to be happening here that distinguishes anonymous chat rooms from other spaces in which social taboos can be lifted: the carnival, the festival, the rave.
—Katie Ebner-Landy, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2025
Chloe McGowan, The Indianapolis Star, 27 June 2022
The Queen is also expected to attend the Derby, one of her favorite horse race events, a concert at Buckingham Palace and the Platinum Jubilee Pageant, a carnival-style celebration during which many artists, including Ed Sheeran, will perform.
—Monique Jessen, PEOPLE.com, 12 May 2022
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Noun
Attend carnival and the Kaya Kaya Festival Courtesy of the Curaçao Tourist Board
As the most significant cultural event of the year, the two-month-long carnival is an ideal way to start a local trip to Curaçao.
—Curaçao Tourist Board, AFAR Media, 26 Feb. 2025
Something seems to be happening here that distinguishes anonymous chat rooms from other spaces in which social taboos can be lifted: the carnival, the festival, the rave.
—Katie Ebner-Landy, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2025
Adjective
Whitestown's family-friendly Independence Day Celebration will kick off at 6 p.m. with live music, carnival-style food, a ticketed kid's zone and a fireworks show once the sun goes down.
—Chloe McGowan, The Indianapolis Star, 27 June 2022
The Queen is also expected to attend the Derby, one of her favorite horse race events, a concert at Buckingham Palace and the Platinum Jubilee Pageant, a carnival-style celebration during which many artists, including Ed Sheeran, will perform.
—Monique Jessen, PEOPLE.com, 12 May 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for carnival
Noun
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Since then, the film and its universal message of female fortitude and empowerment found favor in festivals around the world.—
Alissa Simon,
Variety,
6 Mar. 2025
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The festival will host four Anniversary screenings for audiences to celebrate the lasting legacy of these films.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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As usual for Bong, unexpected music choices liven things up, from quirky waltzes to carnivalesque riffs in a Danny Elfman mode.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
15 Feb. 2025
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The vendors included a sculptor, a florist and a woman selling odd jewelry that included animal bones turned into pendants, and other gory pieces reminiscent of the carnivalesque aspects of Victorian times.—
Luis Giraldo,
CBS News,
14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The riotous dancing is, for the attendees, those lucky few, a salve on life’s burn.—
Dwight Garner,
New York Times,
20 Jan. 2025
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But if season 1 was Fleabag's hilarious, fourth-wall-breaking race to her life's nadir, season 2 brings us her glorious and riotous redemption.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
19 Feb. 2025
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The Jayhawks will also honor seven seniors as part of Senior Day festivities on Saturday.—
Shreyas Laddha,
Kansas City Star,
7 Mar. 2025
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Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) is opening a new exhibit on Japanese comic art with ECCC weekend, and lots of local Seattle and northwest businesses are part of the festivities.—
Rob Salkowitz,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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In any event Marshall, a craven idiot, is a raucous, vulgar sendup of the bedrock American principle of Manifest Destiny.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
7 Mar. 2025
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Pedro Pascal, Ben Mendelsohn and Jay Ellis co star in this raucous LSD-like trip from two filmmakers who know this turf and that era ever so well – Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden.—
Randy Myers,
The Mercury News,
7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The firebrand German director now blasts the cobwebs off Chekhov with boisterous, dazzling delight.—
Demetrios Matheou,
The Hollywood Reporter,
7 Mar. 2025
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Current Evans High boys players may not know much about Darryl Dawkins and the boisterous basketball days that left his indelible mark on the sport — and backboards.—
Buddy Collings,
Orlando Sentinel,
3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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There’s an over-the-top and overdressed fish out of water (me), a raffish Englishmen homesick for Great Britain (my husband Aidan, who will be mortified to read any of this), and an ensemble of quirky characters.—
Mosha Lundström Halbert,
Vogue,
20 Dec. 2024
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The sun was setting, leaving a band of neon orange clinging to the horizon; around us, raffish cliques sipped esoteric cocktails, shared platters of roast chicken, flitted between languages, and seemed, to my eyes, immune to worldly stress.—
David Amsden,
Travel + Leisure,
14 May 2024
Adjective
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Trump’s rowdy speech — a litany of actions taken during his first 43 days in office and a list of his plans for the future — was interrupted by some Democratic legislators in the House chamber.—
Stephen Battaglio,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Mar. 2025
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The action unfolds at nine stadiums spanning the Phoenix metro region — in Tempe, Peoria, Mesa, Goodyear and Scottsdale — as Bay Area fans rush to the region to enjoy a rowdy, sports-heavy celebration with plenty of rivalry matchups.—
Nora Heston Tarte,
The Mercury News,
3 Feb. 2025
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“Carnival.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carnival. Accessed 19 Mar. 2025.
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