CAROL
What does "CAROL" mean?
A joyful song, especially a traditional Christmas hymn.
Meanings
- A festive song or hymn, most often associated with Christmas. They sang carols door to door on Christmas Eve.
- To sing carols, especially going from house to house. The choir went caroling through the snowy streets.
- To sing or warble joyfully. Birds caroled in the hedgerows at first light. figurative
Did you know?
- A carol was originally a dance, not a song: in medieval use a 'carole' was a ring-dance with singing, and only later did the word narrow to the festive Christmas hymns we know today.
Word origin
From Old French 'carole', a ring-dance accompanied by song, possibly from Latin 'choraula' (a flute-player for a chorus), from Greek 'khoraules'; the word once meant a dance before it meant only a song.
Remember it
CAROL = 'CAR-OL' - hear it as a merry 'carol' that rolls off the tongue; or recall the name Carol, who loves to sing at Christmas.
A little poem
Cold doorways, warm breath-
an old tune passed mouth to mouth
outlives every winter.
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Wordplay
- Why did the song join the dance? Because every good carol started as one.
What it teaches
Joy worth keeping is the kind you carry door to door, not the kind you hoard inside.
Quick facts
What does CAROL mean?
A joyful song, especially a traditional Christmas hymn.
Is CAROL a valid word?
Yes — CAROL is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is CAROL?
CAROL has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does CAROL come from?
From Old French 'carole', a ring-dance accompanied by song, possibly from Latin 'choraula' (a flute-player for a chorus), from Greek 'khoraules'; the word once meant a dance before it meant only a song.
What can CAROL teach us?
Joy worth keeping is the kind you carry door to door, not the kind you hoard inside.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.