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.

plural of carnival

The season just before the beginning of the Western Christian season of Lent.

Alternative form of carnival; especially in the sense "any of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent."

plural of Carnival

simple past tense and past participle of carnivalize

present participle of carnivalize

(transitive, literature) To subvert (mainstream assumptions or literary styles) through humour and chaos.

The process of carnivalizing.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of carnivalize