Definition of carnivals:
(n) :
A festive occasion marked by parades and sometimes special foods and other entertainment.
(n) :
(US) A traveling amusement park, called a funfair in British English.
(n) :
Any of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent.
(n) :
(figurative) A gaudily chaotic situation.
(n) :
(sociology) A context in which transgression or inversion of the social order is given temporary license. Derived from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin.
(v) :
(literary) To move about playfully or wildly.