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▸ noun:  Any of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent.
▸ noun:  A festive occasion marked by parades and sometimes special foods and other entertainment.
▸ noun:  (US) A traveling amusement park, called a funfair in British English.
▸ noun:  (sociology) A context in which transgression or inversion of the social order is given temporary license. Derived from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin.
▸ noun:  (figurative) A gaudily chaotic situation.
▸ verb:  (informal, rare) To participate in a carnival.
▸ verb:  (literary) To move about playfully or wildly.
▸ noun:  The season just before the beginning of the Western Christian season of Lent.
▸ noun:  Alternative form of carnival; especially in the sense "any of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent." [Any of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent.]

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