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Carol   /kˈærəl/  /kˈɛrəl/   Listen
noun
Carol  n.  
1.
A round dance. (Obs.)
2.
A song of joy, exultation, or mirth; a lay. "The costly feast, the carol, and the dance." "It was the carol of a bird."
3.
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."
4.
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 The term carrel, of the same has largely superseded its use.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)  
1.
To praise or celebrate in song. "The Shepherds at their festivals Carol her goodness."
2.
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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"Carol" Quotes from Famous Books



... lamentation at dawn, went a-wandering into the desert, and did not take a moment's rest. Next day I said to him, "What condition was that?" He replied, "I remarked the nightingales that they had come to carol in the groves, the pheasants to prattle on the mountains, the frogs to croak in the pools, and the wild beasts to roar in the forests, and thought with myself, saying, It cannot be generous that all are awake in God's praise and I am wrapt up in the sleep of forgetfulness!—Last ...
— Persian Literature, Volume 2, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The - Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan • Anonymous

... pen I stop to glance at that splendor, whose sameness never fails, but now a flock of ring-doves break for a moment with dots of purple its monotonous beauty, and the carol of a tiny bird (the first of the season), though I cannot see the darling, fills the joyful air ...
— The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 • Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

... wings of trade; Bologna's student walls arise to fame, Germania, thine their rival honors claim; Halle, Gottinge, Upsal, Kiel and Leyden smile, Oxonia, Cambridge cheer Britannia's isle; Where, like her lark, gay Chaucer leads the lay, The matin carol of his ...
— The Columbiad • Joel Barlow

... life for me! That is the life for a man! Let others sing of a home on the sea, But match me the woods if you can. Then give me a gun—I've an eye to mark The deer, as they bound along! My steed, dog, and gun, and the cheerful lark, To carol my ...
— Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851 • Various

... 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


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