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carnivalling

carnivalling is the present participle and gerund of carnival.

Meaning of carnival

Verb

carnival (third-person singular simple present carnivals, present participle (US) carnivaling or (UK) carnivalling, simple past and past participle (US) carnivaled or (UK) carnivalled)

  1. (informal, rare) To participate in a carnival.
  2. (literary) To move about playfully or wildly.
    • The spot is a marvel of beauty and taste; and here, where dust and sun carnivaled for so many years, thousands of every class congregate to listen each evening to music discoursed for the amusement of oi polloi.1870 July, “Life in the Mexican Capital”, in The Old Guard, volume VIII, number VII, [New York, N.Y.]: [C. Chauncey Burr & Co.], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 507

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Questions about carnivalling

What is carnivalling the present participle and gerund of?
Carnivalling is the present participle and gerund of carnival.

Words near carnivalling in the dictionary

  1. carnivalized
  2. carnivalizes
  3. carnivalizing
  4. carnivalled
  5. carnivallike
  6. carnivalling
  7. carnivals
  8. carnivora
  9. carnivoracity
  10. carnivoraform
  11. carnivoraforms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: carnivalling (page history and authors); carnival (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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