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/kˈærəl/ /kˈɛrəl/ Listen

noun

Carol n.

A round dance. (Obs.)

A song of joy, exultation, or mirth; a lay. "The costly feast, the carol, and the dance." "It was the carol of a bird."

A song of praise of devotion; as, a Christmas or Easter carol. "Heard a carol, mournful, holy." "In the darkness sing your carol of high praise."

Joyful music, as of a song. "I heard the bells on Christmans Day Their old, familiar carol play."

Carrol, Carol n. (Arch.) A small closet or inclosure built against a window on the inner side, to sit in for study. The word was used as late as the 16th century. The term carrel, of the same has largely superseded its use. "A bay window may thus be called a carol."

verb

Carol v. t. (past & past part. caroled or carolled; pres. part. caroling or carolling)

To praise or celebrate in song. "The Shepherds at their festivals Carol her goodness."

To sing, especially with joyful notes. "Hovering swans... carol sounds harmonious."

Carol v. i. To sing; esp. to sing joyfully; to warble. "And carol of love's high praise." "The gray linnets carol from the hill."

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Etymology of 'Carol'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Carol" Quotes from Famous Books

... not exactly carol and sing like a bird, but he felt almost like endeavouring to hum a tune, as he stepped out of Hyde Park Mansions, and contemplated his horses drawn up before ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... comprehend how legend united of old the spell of enchantment with the power of song. All that I recalled of the effects which, in the former time, Margrave's strange chants had produced on the ear that they ravished and the thoughts they confused, was but as the wild bird's imitative carol, compared to the depth and the art and the soul of the singer, whose voice seemed endowed with a charm to inthrall all the tribes of creation, though the language it used for that charm might to them, as to me, be unknown. As the song ceased, ...

— The Lock and Key Library • Julian Hawthorne, Ed.

... up I sat down on the stair. The place was cold and the darkness deep. Then I heard the eight ringers down below. One said: "Never knowed a Christmas like this since Zeb Sanderaft died. Come, boys!" I knew it must be close on to midnight. Now they would play a Christmas carol. I used every Christmas to be roused up and carried here and set on dad's shoulder. When they were done ringing, Number Two always gave me a box of sugar-plums and a large red apple. As they rang off, my father ...

— The Autobiography of a Quack And The Case Of George Dedlow • S. Weir Mitchell

... playfulness of the diction, and the pungency of New Words, usually ludicrous, often expressive, and sometimes felicitous, there is a stirring spirit, which will be best felt in an audible reading. The velocity of his verse has a carol of its own. The chimes ring in the ear, and the thoughts are flung about like wild Coruscations." See vol. 2, ...

— Bibliomania; or Book-Madness - A Bibliographical Romance • Thomas Frognall Dibdin

... in that midst their sportive pennons waved Thousands of angels, in resplendence each Distinct and quaint adornment. At their glee And carol smiled the Lovely One of heaven That joy was in the eyes of ...

— Fra Angelico • J. B. Supino

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