carrol
Syllables: car·rolUK/ˈkæɹəl/US/ˈkɛɹəl/
carrol is the archaic form of carol.
carrol is the archaic form of carrel.
Meaning of carol
Noun
carol (plural carols)
- A round dance accompanied by singing.
- The carol, a combination of dance, music and song performed by a group, has a parallel history [to the mystery plays]. Although it existed earlier as a secular form – the round dance of which St Hugh's biographer was reminded by the shafts at Lincoln – it seems to have been turned to pious uses...2010, Stephen Medcalf, “On Reading Books from a Half-alien Culture”, in Brian Cummings, Gabriel Josipovici, editors, The Spirit of England: Selected Essays of Stephen Medcalf, Abingdon, Oxon.; New...
- A ballad or song of joy.
- The humane mortals want their winter heere / No night is now with hymme or carroll bleſt; / Therefore the Moone (the gouerneſſe of floods) / Pale in her anger, waſhes all the aire; / That Rheumaticke diſeaſes do abound.c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, A Midsommer Nights Dreame. […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, […], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]
- A (usually traditional) religious or secular song sung at Christmastime.
- They sang a Christmas carol.
- A small closet or enclosure built against the inner side of a window of a monastery's cloister, to sit in for study.
- Carol, or Carrel. A little pew, or closet, in a cloister, to sit and read in. They were common in greater monasteries, as Duram, Gloucester, Kirkham in Yorkshire, &c.; and had their name from the carols, or sentences inscribed on the walls about them, which often were couplets in rhyme. [Carola...[1822, Edward James Willson, compiler, “Carol, or Carrel”, in A Glossary of Technical Terms, Descriptive of Gothic Architecture: […], 3rd edition, London: […] J[ohn] Taylor, […]; J. Britton, […]; and...
Meaning of carrel
Noun (1)
carrel (plural carrels)
Noun (2)
carrel (plural carrels)
Noun (3)
carrel (plural carrels)
Proper noun capitalized: Carrol
Carrol (plural Carrols)
- A surname from Irish, of less common usage, variant of Carroll, derived from the Irish Ó Cearbhaill.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A female given name from the Germanic languages, of less common usage, variant of Carol.
Forms of carrol
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | carrols |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | carrols |
| present participle US | carroling |
| present participle UK | carrolling |
| past participle US | carroled |
| past US | carroled |
| past participle UK | carrolled |
| past UK | carrolled |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Carrols |
Origin of carrol
See carol.
See carrel.
Words that rhyme with carrol
Questions about carrol
- What does carrol mean?
- Carrol means a surname from Irish, of less common usage, variant of Carroll, derived from the Irish Ó Cearbhaill.
- What is carrol the archaic form of?
- Carrol is the archaic form of carol.
- What part of speech is carrol?
- Carrol is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce carrol?
- Carrol is pronounced /ˈkæɹəl/ (UK).
Words near carrol in the dictionary
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