How to pronounce“carol”in English
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Definitions of “carol”
A round dance accompanied by singing.
“The carol, a combination of dance, music and song performed by a group, has a parallel history [to the mystery plays]. Although it existed earlier as a secular form – the round dance of which St Hugh's biographer was reminded by the shafts at Lincoln – it seems to have been turned to pious uses from about 1350.”
A ballad or song of joy.
“The humane mortals want their winter heere / No night is now with hymme or carroll bleſt; / Therefore the Moone (the gouerneſſe of floods) / Pale in her anger, waſhes all the aire; / That Rheumaticke diſeaſes do abound.”
To participate in a carol (a round dance accompanied by singing).
“You might see the townsmen and the ladies carolling in the squares, squires and serjans and young girls singing; there is no street and no house to be found there that is not adorned with hangings of gold and silk.”
To sing in a joyful manner.
“The sun shone, and the birds were caroling.”
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