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Meaning of "j'ouvert" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD J'OUVERT

From French jour ouvert the day having been opened.
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PRONUNCIATION OF J'OUVERT

j'ouvert  [ˈʒuːvɛət] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF J'OUVERT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
J'ouvert is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES J'OUVERT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

J'ouvert

J'ouvert is a large street party during Carnival in the eastern Caribbean region. J'ouvert is a contraction of the French jour ouvert, or dawn/day break. J'ouvert is celebrated on many islands, including Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Lucia, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Aruba, Barbados, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Kitts and Nevis, Sint Maarten, Dominica, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands. It is also a feature of New York City's West Indian Day Parade held on Labor Day, in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn and Notting Hill Carnival in London, both areas that have a large Caribbean ex-pat communities. The celebration involves calypso/soca bands and their followers dancing through the streets. The festival starts well before dawn and peaks a few hours after sunrise. Carnival was introduced to Trinidad by French settlers in 1783, a time of slavery. Banned from the masquerade balls of the French, the slaves would stage their own mini-carnivals in their backyards — using their own rituals and folklore, but also imitating and sometimes mocking their masters’ behavior at the masquerade balls.

Definition of j'ouvert in the English dictionary

The definition of j'ouvert in the dictionary is the eve of Mardi gras; the Monday morning on which the festivities begin.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH J'OUVERT


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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE J'OUVERT

adoube
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J/A
J/psi particle
ja
ja well no fine
jaap
jab
Jabal ar Rahm
Jabalpur
jabbed
jabber
jabberer
jabbering
jabberingly
jabberwock
jabberwockies
jabberwocky
jabbing
jabbingly

WORDS THAT END LIKE J'OUVERT

advert
avert
Calvert
controvert
convert
couvert
covert
culvert
divert
evert
extravert
extrovert
introvert
invert
overt
pervert
revert
sievert
subvert
vert

Synonyms and antonyms of j'ouvert in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «j'ouvert» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF J'OUVERT

Find out the translation of j'ouvert to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of j'ouvert from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «j'ouvert» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

j´ouvert
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

j´ouvert
570 millions of speakers

English

j´ouvert
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जुवार्ट
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

j´ouvert
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

j´ouvert
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

J´ouvert
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

j´ouvert
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

J´ouvert
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

J´ouvert
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

J´Ouvert
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

j´ouvert
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

j´ouvert
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

J´ouvert
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

j´ouvert
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

j´ouvert
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ज्यॉव्हर्ट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

j´ouvert
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

j´ouvert
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

j´ouvert
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

j´ouvert
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

j´ouvert
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

j´ouvert
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

j´ouvert
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

j´ouvert
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

j´ouvert
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of j'ouvert

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «J'OUVERT»

The term «j'ouvert» is regularly used and occupies the 100.625 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «J'OUVERT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about j'ouvert

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «J'OUVERT»

Discover the use of j'ouvert in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to j'ouvert and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Forty Years of Steel: An Annotated Discography of Steel Band ...
140 Jouvert 69 [see J'Ouvert 69] 1 19 J'Ouvert '69 [see J'Ouvert 69] 121, 127, 167 J'Ouvert 69 [see also Jourvert '69; Jouvert 69; J'Ouvert '69] (w.m. Aldwin Roberts) Joy To The World [see also Children's Christmas] (w. Isaac Watts, m. hymn ...
Jeffrey Ross Thomas, 1992
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Articles on Trinidad and Tobago Culture, Including: ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Hephaestus Books, 2011
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Bacchanal!: The Carnival Culture of Trinidad
Once you fall in with a J'Ouvert band, you soon take on their darkened, ripped up demeanour. J'Ouvert is the closest remaining link to the 'ole mas' of the post- emancipation days of the mid-1 800s, when former slaves ridiculed their plight with ...
Peter Mason, 1998
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J'ouvert Morning: Selected Poems
J'ouvert Morning is a collection of poems that centers around the theme of love.
Esther Slade, 2013
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Bacchanalian Sentiments: Musical Experiences and Political ...
J'ouvert is the time of individual masqueraders making political points. This involves people dressing up in idiosyncratic costumes, often carrying placards that make important social points. In addition, J'ouvert morning is the morning of the ...
Kevin K. Birth, 2008
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Island Sounds in the Global City: Caribbean Popular Music ...
Earl King, one of the organizers of these early J'Ouvert events, recalls that one Labor Day morning around three a.m., some time in the late 1980s, the bands began to spontaneously move up Bedford Avenue to Empire Boulevard and down ...
Ray Allen, Lois Wilcken, 1998
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The Steelband Movement: The Forging of a National Art in ...
A bomb was a tune that a band prepared for J'Ouvert with the objective of surprising and impressing other bands with its musical ability. The practice appears to have originated with All Stars, who in the 1940s came out for J'Ouvert playing ...
Stephen Stuempfle, 1995
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Articles on Caribbean Culture, Including: Calypso Music, ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Hephaestus Books, 2011
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Tobago Adventure Guide
Monday Morning, J'Ouvert Monday's Carnival events begin with J'Ouvert ( pronounced JOO-vay, and also spelled Jouvay). This is the time for “mud mas," a masquerade of colored mud, and for the more outrageous portrayals in a competition ...
Kathleen O'Donnell, 2013
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Beckoning Bullard
Shawn's. J'ouvert. Connections. T. he first big day for Carnival revelers was about to break. Masqueraders were heading to the big city to join theirJ'ouvert bands. Costumes made of very skimpy pieces of cloth were worn by the masqueraders ...
D. F. Les Pierre-Luke, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «J'OUVERT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term j'ouvert is used in the context of the following news items.
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Pan Am arts events share culture with Scarborough
The mural party may seem a bit tame compared to the next art event, J'ouvert & Carnival on the Pathway, on Saturday, July 25. Lasting from 1 ... «insideTORONTO.com, Jul 15»
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Steel-Pan Bands in Brooklyn Struggle to Find Rehearsal Space
Such moves will make it more arduous to transport instruments to Panorama and J'ouvert, band members said, and have separated bands from ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
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Wanted: Volunteers for Huddersfield Carnival 2015
The regular Friday night J'ouvert parade has been replaced with a Glow Parade at 9pm at the Carnival Arts Centre on Westgate which will ... «Huddersfield Examiner, Jul 15»
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Another bright idea
LumiNation follows the common format of all-inclusive drinks, but deviates from there, dipping into the carnival J'Ouvert culture of painting and ... «Jamaica Observer, Jul 15»
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Island Happenings (July 2, 2015)
USVI: The St. John Festival J'ouvert starts around sunrise from the St. John National Park, and a parade will follow. Puerto Rico: The Humacao ... «BVI Beacon, Jul 15»
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A colourful 3D-X
BACCHANAL 3D-X Summer J'Ouvert on Saturday night at Mas Camp, St Andrew, kicked off the summer party season right, providing the billed ... «Jamaica Observer, Jun 15»
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Music and paint at 3D-X
Bacchanal 3D-X Summer J'Ouvert kicked off the summer party season in fine style on Saturday night as bacchanal lovers turned out in droves ... «Jamaica Gleaner, Jun 15»
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3D-X SUMMER J'OUVERT set to sizzle
ORGANISERS of Bacchanal 3D-X Summer J'ouvert are set to serve up another "spectacular" event at Mas Camp in St Andrew on Saturday. «Jamaica Observer, Jun 15»
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London's first Caribbean Carnival?
A surviving printed programme for The First Caribbean Carnival in London shows that it had calypso, steelband, mas, and even J'Ouvert. «Trinidad Guardian, Jun 15»
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Pastor stands by criticism of Heroes Weekend
A Front Street soca party, which drew a crowd of 5,000, an early morning j'ouvert, a Caribbean carnival-style parade and a raft-up were among ... «Royal Gazette, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. J'ouvert [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/jouvert>. May 2024 ».
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