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Carnival vs Parades - What's the difference?

carnival | parades |

As nouns the difference between carnival and parades

is that carnival is a festive occasion marked by parades and sometimes special foods and other entertainment while parades is plural of lang=en.

As a proper noun Carnival

is the season just before the beginning of the Roman Catholic season of Lent, when New Orleans has its Mardi Gras carnival.

As a verb parades is

third-person singular of parade.

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

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    parades

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (parade)
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