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How to pronounce “carnival”
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Pronunciation guide for carnival
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of carnival with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Carny: Americana on the Midway
Um, I I was at a carnival and I started
- Definition summary
- Any of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce carnival
Carny: Americana on the Midway

Um, I I was at a carnival and I started
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “carnival”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- Any of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent.
- A festive occasion marked by parades and sometimes special foods and other entertainment.
- (US) A traveling amusement park, called a funfair in British English.
- (sociology) A context in which transgression or inversion of the social order is given temporary license. Derived from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin.
- (figurative) A gaudily chaotic situation.
- [Verb]
- (informal, rare) To participate in a carnival.
- (literary) To move about playfully or wildly.
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