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carnival meaning in Kannada

ಕಾರ್ನೀವಲ್

/ˈkɑːnɪvəl//ˈkɑɹnɪvəl/

carnival in Kannada: ಕಾರ್ನೀವಲ್, ಕಾರ್ನಿವಲ್. In English, carnival means any of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent.

Kannada words for carnival

ಕಾರ್ನೀವಲ್, ಕಾರ್ನಿವಲ್

English meaning of carnival

  1. noun Any of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent.
  2. noun A festive occasion marked by parades and sometimes special foods and other entertainment.
  3. noun A traveling amusement park, called a funfair in British English.
  4. noun A context in which transgression or inversion of the social order is given temporary license. Derived from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin.

Full definition of carnival

carnival in a sentence

  • We all got to ride the merry-go-round when they brought their carnival to town.
  • When the carnival came to town, every one wanted some cotton candy.
  • a carnival of idiocy

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Questions about carnival in Kannada

What is the meaning of carnival in Kannada?
Carnival in Kannada is ಕಾರ್ನೀವಲ್, ಕಾರ್ನಿವಲ್.
carnival ಪದದ ಕನ್ನಡ ಅರ್ಥ ಏನು?
Carnival: ಕಾರ್ನೀವಲ್, ಕಾರ್ನಿವಲ್.
What does carnival mean in English?
Carnival means any of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent.

Source and license

Kannada words: machine translation by IndicTrans2 (AI4Bharat, MIT license), kept only when it translates back to “carnival”. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: carnival (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Kannada words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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