English

Noun

carnage ‎(usually uncountable, plural carnages)

1. Death and destruction.
2. What remains after a massacre, e.g. the corpses or gore.
3. (figuratively, slang) Any chaotic situation.
   • 2014, Simon Spence, Happy Mondays: Excess All Areas

     The lads had recently returned from a wild summer on the party island of Ibiza, an increasingly popular hotspot for working-class British youth. But this was not a scene of drunken holiday carnage in tacky discos.

   • 2015, Adam Jones, Bomb: My Autobiography

     Within three hours we'd drunk the place dry. Miraculously, we all made it back on the bus, but I've never seen a more bacchanalian scene of wanton debauchery than the ride back to the hotel. It was total carnage.

Synonyms

• insurrectionism
• bloodbath
• massacre

Translations

Anagrams

• cranage

French

Etymology

From Middle French carnage, itself probably from a Norman or Picard (Old Northern French) variant of Old French charnage, itself from char (cf. chair ‎(“flesh”)), or from a Vulgar Latin *carnaticum ‎(“slaughter of animals”), from Latin carō, carnem. Cf. also Old Provençal carnatge, Italian carnaggio.

Noun

carnage m ‎(plural carnages)

1. carnage (all senses)

Middle French

Etymology

Probably from a Norman or Picard (Old Northern French) variant of Old French charnage, itself from char ‎(“flesh”), or from a Vulgar Latin *carnaticum ‎(“slaughter of animals”), from Latin carō, carnem.

Noun

carnage m (plural carnages)

1. a piece of meat used as bait

Descendants

• English: carnage
• French: carnage