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Carnival vs Revelry - What's the difference?

carnival | revelry | Related terms |

Carnival is a related term of revelry.


As a proper noun carnival

is the season just before the beginning of the has its mardi gras carnival.

As a noun revelry is

joyful merry-making.

carnival

English

(wikipedia carnival)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A festive occasion marked by parades and sometimes special foods and other entertainment.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}
  • (US English) a traveling amusement park, called a funfair in UK English.

    • Derived terms

    * carnival glass * carny * carnivalesque * carnivalistic

    See also

    *

    revelry

    English

    Noun

    (revelries)
  • Joyful merry-making.
  • * 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
    • The women pale and staring under the sun. In plain skirts, drab shoes. In hair scarves. Their drunken revelry jars.

    Synonyms

    * celebration, festivity, revelment

    Derived terms

    * revelrous