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Caroling

//ˈkæɹəlɪŋ// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A singing of carols.

    "1958, Brenda Lee, Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree Later we'll have some pumpkin pie / And we'll do some caroling."

  2. 2
    A descendant of Charles Martel; a Carolingian.

    "The wonderful house of the Carolings, which produced no less than five successive rulers of genius […]"

  3. 3
    singing joyful religious songs (especially at Christmas) wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of carol US, form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵerh₂-der. Proto-Germanic *karaz Proto-Germanic *karilaz Proto-West Germanic *karil Proto-Indo-European *-n̥kʷo-der.? Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Germanic *-īnaz Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz ? Proto-Germanic *-ingaz Proto-West Germanic *-ing Medieval Latin Carolingusbor. English Caroling From Medieval Latin Carolingus, from a Frankish patronymic ultimately composed of Proto-West Germanic *karil + *-ing. By surface analysis, Carolus + -ing.

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