celebration

4 definitions found

celebration - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Celebration \Cel`e*bra"tion\, n. [L. celebratio.]
     The act, process, or time of celebrating.
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           His memory deserving a particular celebration.
                                                    --Clarendok.
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           Celebration of Mass is equivalent to offering Mass
                                                    --Cath. Dict.
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           To hasten the celebration of their marriage. --Sir P.
                                                    Sidney.
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celebration - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  celebration
      n 1: a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some
           happy event [syn: celebration, jubilation]
      2: any joyous diversion [syn: celebration, festivity]
      3: the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with
         all appropriate ritual; "the celebration of marriage" [syn:
         celebration, solemnization, solemnisation]

celebration - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  CELEBRATION, contracts. This word is usually applied, in law, to the 
  celebration of marriage, which is the solemn act by which a man and woman 
  take each other for husband and wife, conformably to the rules prescribed by 
  law. Diet. de Juris. h.t. 
  
  

celebration - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  138 Moby Thesaurus words for "celebration":
     Sabbatarianism, agape, asperges, aspersion, auricular confession,
     baccalaureate service, bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian,
     banquet, bar mitzvah, bas mitzvah, bat, bender, binge, bout, bust,
     carousal, carouse, ceremonial, ceremonialism, ceremony,
     circumcision, commemoration, commencement, compotation, confession,
     confirmation, convocation, cult, cultism, cultus, debauch,
     drinking bout, drunk, drunken carousal, elation, empty formality,
     escapade, exercise, exercises, exultation, feast, festivity, fete,
     fling, formal, formalism, formality, frolic, function, gala,
     graduation, graduation exercises, guzzle, hallowing,
     high celebration, hoopla, inaugural, inauguration, incense,
     initiation, invocation, invocation of saints, jag, joyance,
     jubilance, jubilation, jubilee, kiss of peace, lark, lesser litany,
     litany, liturgics, liturgiology, liturgism, liturgy, love feast,
     lustration, mad round, memorialization, merriment, merrymaking,
     mummery, observance, observation, office, orgy, party, pax,
     performance, ploy, potation, praising, processional, pub-crawl,
     randan, randy, raucous happiness, reciting the rosary, regale,
     regalement, rejoicing, religious ceremony, revel, revelment,
     revelry, rite, rite de passage, rite of passage, ritual, ritualism,
     rituality, ritualization, round of pleasures, sabbatism,
     sacramentalism, sacramentarianism, sanctification, service,
     show of joy, solemn observance, solemnity, solemnization, spree,
     symbolics, symbolism, symposium, tear, telling of beads,
     the confessional, the confessionary, toot, treat, triumph, wassail,
     whoopee, wingding