Carnival definition

Carnival means a traveling business providing commercial entertainment consisting of sideshows, concessions, rides, games of chance, and other amusements. When held outdoors, a carnival is a type of outdoor festival or outdoor community event.

Carnival means a traveling amusement show featuring exhibits, games and rides but which does not feature domestic or wild animals;

Carnival means an enterprise offering amusement or entertainment to the public in, upon, or by means of amusement devices or rides or concession booths.

Examples of Carnival in a sentence

• During the first full month of lockdown, car sales fell by 97%.Lesson 10: Interconnectedness and the FutureMigrants Impacts on Places• Diversity in the UK is celebrated with music, food, colourful parades, e.g. annual Notting Hill Carnival in London celebrates Caribbean culture brought to the UK by West Indian immigrants after Second World War.

• According to some opinions, Carnival starts with Christmas (or on December 6, the feast day of St Nicholas), once again because of the large number of masked personages seen at that time.

• Likewise, this will be the last Carnival celebration that will be organized under the auspices of the Cultural Development Foundation.Consistent with the plans to develop the Creative Industries Sector, the Government will move to establish a Festivals Commission to manage both theJazz Festival and Carnival.

• According to others, Carnival commences at the beginning of the year or, more precisely, on January 6, on Epiphany (the Feast of the Magi or Twelfth Night, on the eve of celebration of the Orthodox Christmas).

• So it is claimed that Carnival in Germany and part of The Netherlands actually begins on November 11, on the feast day of St Martin, forty days prior to the Winter Solstice (de Sike 1995:26).

More Definitions of Carnival

Carnival means an aggregation of attractions including any show, circus, act, game, vending device, or amusement device, whether conducted under one management or more, or independently, temporarily set up or conducted in a public place or upon any private premises accessible to the public with or without admission fee, which, from the nature of the aggregation, attracts attendance and causes promiscuous commingling of persons in the spirit of merrymaking and revelry.

Carnival means Carnival Corporation;

Carnival means an enterprise which offers amusement or entertainment to the public by means of one or more amusement attractions or amusement rides. (Section 2-2(5) of the Act)

Carnival means any traveling enterprise offering a variety of rides and amusements to the public for a fee;

Carnival means a transient enterprise offering amusement and entertainment for the public in, upon or by means of mechanical amusement rides or devices.

Carnival means a mobile enterprise principally devoted to offering amusement or entertainment to the public, in, upon, or by means of portable amusement rides or devices or temporary structures in any number or combination, whether or not associated with other structures or forms of public attraction.

Carnival means a business operating amusement ride(s) or other device(s) and authorized games of chance intended to entertain or amuse or provide entertainment to the public.