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}
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"ref": "2010, Stephen Medcalf, “On Reading Books from a Half-alien Culture”, in Brian Cummings, Gabriel Josipovici, editors, The Spirit of England: Selected Essays of Stephen Medcalf, Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Legenda, Modern Humanities Research Association and Routledge, page 87",
"text": "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.",
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"A round dance accompanied by singing."
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]
],
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"(historical) A round dance accompanied by singing."
],
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],
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "round dance accompanied by singing",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "carole"
}
]
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"Culture",
"Energy",
"Society",
"Nature",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
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"A ballad or song of joy."
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"text": "They sang a Christmas carol.",
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"ref": "1632, Randle Cotgrave, Robert Sherwood, “Carolle”, in A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues. Compiled by Randle Cotgrave. Wherevnto is also Annexed a Most Copious Dictionarie, of the English Set before the French. By R[obert] S[herwood,] L[ondoner], London: Printed by Adam Islip, →OCLC",
"text": "Carolle: f[eminine]. A kind of daunce wherein many daunce together; alſo, a Carroll, or Chriſtmas ſong.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1863 December 25, Henry W[adsworth] Longfellow, “Christmas Bells”, in J[ohn] T[ownsend] Trowbridge, Gail Hamilton [pseudonym; Mary Abigail Dodge], Lucy Larcom, editors, Our Young Folks. An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls, volume I, number II, Boston, Mass.: Ticknow and Fields, 124 Tremont Street, published February 1865, →OCLC, page 123",
"text": "I heard the bells on Christmas Day\nTheir old, familiar carols play,\nAnd wild and sweet\nThe words repeat\nOf peace on earth, good-will to men!",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "1945, “The Christmas Song: Merry Christmas to You: S.A.T.B. with Incidental Soprano Solos and Piano Accompaniment”, Mel Tormé, Bob Wells (lyrics), Mel Tormé (music), New York, N.Y.: E. H. Morris, published 1946, →OCLC",
"text": "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire\nJack Frost nipping at your nose\nYuletide carols being sung by a choir\nAnd folks dressed up like Eskimos",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2015 December 21, Gary Trust, “Carey’s 1994 Classic Reaches a New Peak (No. 18) while Continuing atop the Holiday 100 Chart”, in Billboard, archived from the original on 2017-11-20",
"text": "More than two decades after its original release, Mariah Carey's \"All I Want for Christmas Is You\" continues to hit new heights. The 1994 carol rises 22–18 on the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Jan. 2, 2016), scoring its best rank ever on the chart.",
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"A (usually traditional) religious or secular song sung at Christmastime."
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"A ballad or song of joy.",
"(specifically) A (usually traditional) religious or secular song sung at Christmastime."
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"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "religious or secular song sung at Christmastime",
"word": "villancicu"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "koledna pesen",
"sense": "religious or secular song sung at Christmastime",
"word": "коледна песен"
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"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "religious or secular song sung at Christmastime",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nadala"
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"sense": "religious or secular song sung at Christmastime",
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"word": "koleda"
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"sense": "religious or secular song sung at Christmastime",
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"sense": "religious or secular song sung at Christmastime",
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"word": "jólasongur"
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"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "religious or secular song sung at Christmastime",
"tags": [
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"word": "jólasálmur"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "religious or secular song sung at Christmastime",
"word": "joululaulu"
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"_dis1": "9 12 79",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "religious or secular song sung at Christmastime",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "chœur"
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"_dis1": "9 12 79",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "religious or secular song sung at Christmastime",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "panxoliña"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 12 79",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "religious or secular song sung at Christmastime",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Weihnachtslied"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 12 79",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "kálanta",
"sense": "religious or secular song sung at Christmastime",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"plural"
],
"word": "κάλαντα"
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"code": "csb",
"lang": "Kashubian",
"sense": "religious or secular song sung at Christmastime",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "kòlãda"
},
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"_dis1": "9 12 79",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "religious or secular song sung at Christmastime",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "kolęda"
},
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"_dis1": "9 12 79",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "koljádka",
"sense": "religious or secular song sung at Christmastime",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "коля́дка"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "koljadá",
"sense": "religious or secular song sung at Christmastime",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "коляда́"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "xorál",
"sense": "religious or secular song sung at Christmastime",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "хора́л"
},
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"_dis1": "9 12 79",
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"sense": "religious or secular song sung at Christmastime",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "koleda"
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "religious or secular song sung at Christmastime",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "коледа"
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"sense": "religious or secular song sung at Christmastime",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "koleda"
},
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"code": "dsb",
"lang": "Lower Sorbian",
"sense": "religious or secular song sung at Christmastime",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gódowny spiw"
},
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"_dis1": "9 12 79",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "religious or secular song sung at Christmastime",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "villancico"
},
{
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"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "koljádka",
"sense": "religious or secular song sung at Christmastime",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "коля́дка"
},
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"code": "wym",
"lang": "Vilamovian",
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],
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"ipa": "/ˈkæɹəl/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈkæɹəl/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "charoúmeno tragoúdi",
"sense": "song of joy",
"tags": [
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"word": "χαρούμενο τραγούδι"
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"code": "hi",
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"word": "कैरल"
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"_dis1": "9 45 45",
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"sense": "song of joy",
"word": "キャロル"
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"_dis1": "9 45 45",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "song of joy",
"word": "carol"
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"_dis1": "9 45 45",
"code": "nn",
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"sense": "song of joy",
"word": "carol"
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"sense": "song of joy",
"word": "carol"
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{
"_dis1": "9 45 45",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "song of joy",
"word": "kolęda"
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"_dis1": "9 45 45",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vesjólaja pésnja",
"sense": "song of joy",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "весёлая пе́сня"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 45 45",
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"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "song of joy",
"word": "кэрол"
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"lang": "Spanish",
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"word": "carol"
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],
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"Piae Cantiones"
],
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English carole, from Old French carole, from Old Italian carola, from Medieval Latin choraula, a variant of choraulēs (“flute player accompanying a chorus dance”), from Ancient Greek χοραυλής (khoraulḗs, “one who accompanies a chorus on the flute”), from χορός (khorós, “choir; dance”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“to enclose”) or *ǵʰoros) + αὐλός (aulós, “flute”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewlos (“tube”)). Compare chorus, terpsichorean.",
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"participle",
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{
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"past"
]
},
{
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"pres_ptc_qual": "UK"
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"name": "en-verb"
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"ref": "1632, Randle Cotgrave, Robert Sherwood, “Carolle”, in A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues. Compiled by Randle Cotgrave. Wherevnto is also Annexed a Most Copious Dictionarie, of the English Set before the French. By R[obert] S[herwood,] L[ondoner], London: Printed by Adam Islip, →OCLC",
"text": "Carolle: f[eminine]. A kind of daunce wherein many daunce together; alſo, a Carroll, or Chriſtmas ſong.",
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"ref": "1863 December 25, Henry W[adsworth] Longfellow, “Christmas Bells”, in J[ohn] T[ownsend] Trowbridge, Gail Hamilton [pseudonym; Mary Abigail Dodge], Lucy Larcom, editors, Our Young Folks. An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls, volume I, number II, Boston, Mass.: Ticknow and Fields, 124 Tremont Street, published February 1865, →OCLC, page 123",
"text": "I heard the bells on Christmas Day\nTheir old, familiar carols play,\nAnd wild and sweet\nThe words repeat\nOf peace on earth, good-will to men!",
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"ref": "1945, “The Christmas Song: Merry Christmas to You: S.A.T.B. with Incidental Soprano Solos and Piano Accompaniment”, Mel Tormé, Bob Wells (lyrics), Mel Tormé (music), New York, N.Y.: E. H. Morris, published 1946, →OCLC",
"text": "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire\nJack Frost nipping at your nose\nYuletide carols being sung by a choir\nAnd folks dressed up like Eskimos",
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"ref": "2015 December 21, Gary Trust, “Carey’s 1994 Classic Reaches a New Peak (No. 18) while Continuing atop the Holiday 100 Chart”, in Billboard, archived from the original on 2017-11-20",
"text": "More than two decades after its original release, Mariah Carey's \"All I Want for Christmas Is You\" continues to hit new heights. The 1994 carol rises 22–18 on the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Jan. 2, 2016), scoring its best rank ever on the chart.",
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"ref": "1990, Christopher Page, “Jeunesse and the Courtly Song Repertory”, in The Owl and the Nightingale: Musical Life and Ideas in France 1100–1300, 1st U.S. edition, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Press, page 91",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1766 April, “Day: A Pastoral. From Cunningham’s Poems. [Evening.]”, in The London Magazine. Or, Gentleman’s Monthly Intelligencer, volume XXXV, London: Printed for R. Baldwin at the Rose, in Pater-noster Row, →OCLC, page 207, column 2",
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"ref": "1859, [Peter Christen Asbjørnsen; Jørgen Engebretsen Moe], “The Mastermaid”, in George Webbe Dasent, transl., Popular Tales from the Norse … With an Introductory Essay on the Origin and Diffusion of Popular Tales, 2nd enlarged edition, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, →OCLC, pages 81–82",
"text": "\"Sure enough, it is an easy master I have got,\" said the Prince to himself, as he walked up and down the room, and carolled and sang, for he thought there was plenty of time to clean out the stable.",
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"ref": "1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC; republished in The Malayan Trilogy: Time for a Tiger; The Enemy in the Blanket; Beds in the East (Vintage Burgess), London: Vintage Books, 2000, page 263",
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"ref": "1981, Julian May, The Many-colored Land, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin; republished as The Many-coloured Land, London: Tor Books, 2013, page 389",
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"ref": "2012, Patrena Dawkins-Anderson, chapter 8, in Chongtu: Conflict, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Red Lead Press, page 48",
"text": "Christmas morning was welcomed by services in some churches. Everyone in the Bingham house, along with other church members, went carolling at five o'clock in the morning, which culminated in the Christmas message at the church, delivered by the pastor. Everyone's heart was blessed.",
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"ref": "2014, Christmas at Grandma’s, Columbus, Oh.: Gooseberry Patch, page 80",
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"ref": "1656, T. S., “The Third Month Called May hath xxxj Dayes”, in An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord 1656. Being First after Leap Year; and from the Creation 5588. … Calculated for the Longitude of 315 gr: and 42 gr: 30 min. of N. Lat: and may Generally Serve for the Most Part of New England, Cambridge, Mass.: Printed by Samuel Green, →OCLC",
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"text": "Now Sol hath ſcap't the Oxes horn,\nThe Ram, the winds, the ſtormes, and harms;\nThe loving Twins by Leda born,\nWill entertain him in their arms.\nAnd Flora ſmiles to feel thoſe beams\nWhich whilom were with-drawn ſo long.\nThe pratling birds, the purling ſtreams",
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"ref": "1719, Mat[thew] Prior, “The Second Hymn of Callimachus to Apollo”, in Poems on Several Occasions, Dublin: Printed for J. Hyde in Dame-street, R. Gunne in Caple-street, R. Owen in Skinner-row, and E. Dobson in Castle-street, booksellers, →OCLC, page 222",
"text": "Why do the Delian Palms incline their Boughs,\nSelf-mov'd; and hov'ring Swans, their Throats releas'd\nFrom native Silence, carol Sounds harmonious?",
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"ref": "1774, William Richardson, “Runny Mead”, in Poems, Chiefly Rural, Glasgow: Printed by Robert & Andrew Foulis, printers to the University, →OCLC, page 64",
"roman": "From blooming bean-fields ſhall diffuſe perfume.",
"text": "[...] Ye villagers rejoice;\nAnd ye who cultivate the fertile glebe\nCarrol the gladſome ſong. For you the plain\nShall wave with wheaten harveſts; and the gale",
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