0 (a special occasion or period of) public enjoyment and entertainment involving wearing unusual clothes, dancing, and eating and drinking, usually held in the streets of a city: --
There's a real carnival atmosphere in the streets.
a Caribbean carnival
1 a place of outside entertainment where there are machines you can ride on and games that can be played for prizes: --
The fair consisted of show competition, demonstration of agricultural animals and produce, carnival activities, and over 100 vendors of food and drink.
Carnival provided village communities with the opportunity to air all the latent antagonisms, misdeeds, and other problems undermining their sense of unity.
It was, for example, a major feature of much medieval pageantry, and it characterizes the modern carnival that involves performance.
Carnival was a holiday from the university, and they often sponsored performances at carnival.
We must remember, however, that carnival was a time of legitimate illegitimacy.
For its users, the beach amounted to a summer-long carnival and a democratic experience of sharing the public domain.
The song was so unusual in the carnival-song repertory that it quickly became one of its best-known works.
The user is treated to the carnival tents and exhibitions, each more grotesque and absurd than the last.
