Noun

(en noun)

A festive occasion marked by parades and sometimes special foods and other entertainment.

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(US English) a traveling amusement park, called a funfair in UK English.

Noun

The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.

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Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate' which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that ' fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.

The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.

Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.

(lb) (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).