Carol

As bloggers, we sometimes talk about strange but interesting (at least to ourselves) things.  I joined in writing challenge last yeat where we made dolls and wrote stories about the dolls travels.  I was researching for a name.  I looked up carol.  Here is the results... stuff I didn't know about my own name.  Have you researched your name to see where it originated and what interesting things historically there is about it?

A carol is a festive song, generally religious but not necessarily connected with church worship, and often with a dance-like or popular character.

( I liked the part about being a festive song and the character, lol)

The word carol is derived from the Old French word carole, a circle dance accompanied by singers (in turn derived from the Latin choraula). Carols were very popular as dance songs from the 1150s to the 1350s, after which their use expanded as processional songs sung during festivals, while others were written to accompany religious mystery plays (such as the Coventry Carol, written in 1591).[1]

(Circle dancing???  Let's go!)

carol verb

1

to produce musical sounds with the voice <she caroled with glee when she heard the good news>

Synonyms carol, chant, descant, vocalize

Related Words belt, croon, harmonize, hum, lilt, quaver, scat, sharp, slur, trill, troll, warble, yodel; serenade

( I have tried yodelling once or twice-jk!)

2

to proclaim the glory of <landscape photographs that carol the majesty and monumentality of Yosemite Valley>

Synonyms bless, carol, celebrate, emblazon, exalt, extol (also extoll), glorify, hymn, laud, magnify, resound

Related Words adore, belaud, deify, idolize, worship; acclaim, applaud, commend, compliment, hail, renown, salute; chant, cheer, eulogize, rhapsodize; cite; flatter; crack up, recommend, tout

Near Antonyms blame, censure, reprehend, reprobate; criticize, reprove; admonish, chide, keelhaul, rebuke, reprimand, reproach; castigate, lambaste (or lambast)

(Well, this last is a bit deep for me...)

Now, If I could figure out how to delete stuff like this from my Word files...