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fairground

UK/ˈfɛə(ɹ)ɡɹaʊnd/US/ˈfɛə(ɹ)ɡɹaʊnd/
nounB1+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #12,851 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: fairgrounds

A fairground is the open ground where rides and stalls are set up. On the fairground, fairground rides, the fairground lights.

The travelling fair is one of the oldest trades in Britain, run by families for generations, and the ground is often the same field year after year by ancient charter. Fairground organs and painted panels are a folk art of their own.

Graham Robson · CC BY-SA 2.0

Definitions of fairground

  1. 1nounfairgroundThe open ground where rides and stalls are set up.B1+

    “The children ran across the fairground towards the big wheel and the candyfloss stalls.”

fairground is a place.

Where it comes from

Fair plus ground. Fair comes from Latin feria, a holy day or festival.

From fair + ground.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Circus & Fairground

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fairground in the wild

  • The collection includes fairground rides, a display farm, two railways, and the woodland gardens.

    Hollycombe Steam Collection

  • Originating in Paris, France, these organs were designed for use in commercial fairground settings to provide loud music to accompany rides and attractions, mostly merry-go-rounds.

    Fairground organ

  • Unlike organs for indoor use, fairground organs are designed to be loud enough to be heard above the noises of crowds and fairground machinery.

    Fairground organ

  • Swing boats were one of the earliest fairground rides, common in the Victorian era.

    Swing boat

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.