carnival
/ˈkɑːnɪvəl/ noun [C]Definition
CELEBRATION › a public celebration where people wear special clothes and dance and play music in the roads
ENTERTAINMENT US › a place of outside entertainment where there are machines you can ride on and games that can be played for prizes
(Definition of carnival noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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