celebration
n.
festival, festivities
Celebration
celebration
Noun
1. a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event
(synonym) jubilation
(hypernym) affair, occasion, social occasion, function, social function
(derivation) observe, celebrate, keep
2. any joyous diversion
(synonym) festivity
(hypernym) diversion, recreation
(hyponym) agon
(derivation) observe, celebrate, keep
3. the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual; "the celebration of marriage"
(synonym) solemnization, solemnisation
(hypernym) ritual
(derivation) observe, celebrate, keep
célébration (f)
n.
celebration, observance
Celebration
(n.)
The act, process, or time of celebrating.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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