CAROL (carolled, carolling)

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Irregular inflected forms: carolled    , carolling   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does carol mean? 

• CAROL (noun)
  The noun CAROL has 2 senses:

1. joyful religious song celebrating the birth of Christ

2. a joyful song (usually celebrating the birth of Christ)

  Familiarity information: CAROL used as a noun is rare.

• CAROL (verb)
  The verb CAROL has 1 sense:

1. sing carols

  Familiarity information: CAROL used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAROL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Joyful religious song celebrating the birth of Christ

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

carol; Christmas carol

Hypernyms ("carol" is a kind of...):

religious song (religious music for singing)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A joyful song (usually celebrating the birth of Christ)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("carol" is a kind of...):

song; strain (the act of singing)

Derivation:

carol (sing carols)

• CAROL (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they carol    ... he / she / it carols   
Past simple: caroled    / carolled   
Past participle: caroled    / carolled   
-ing form: caroling    / carolling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sing carols

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

They went caroling on Christmas Day

Hypernyms (to "carol" is one way to...):

sing (deliver by singing)

Domain category:

music (musical activity (singing or whistling etc.))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue carol

Derivation:

carol (a joyful song (usually celebrating the birth of Christ))

caroler; caroller (a singer of carols)

 Context examples 

I have myself—I tell it you without parable—been a worldly, dissipated, restless man; and I believe I have found the instrument for my cure in—He paused: the birds went on carolling, the leaves lightly rustling.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Out in the garden stood a stately snow maiden, crowned with holly, bearing a basket of fruit and flowers in one hand, a great roll of music in the other, a perfect rainbow of an Afghan round her chilly shoulders, and a Christmas carol issuing from her lips on a pink paper streamer.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)