English > ceremony: 3 senses > noun 1, eventMeaning | A formal event performed on a special occasion. |
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Example | "a ceremony commemorating Pearl Harbor" |
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Synonyms | ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, observance |
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Narrower | Maundy | A public ceremony on Maundy Thursday when the monarch distributes Maundy money |
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circumstance | formal ceremony about important occasions |
commemoration, memorialization, memorialisation | A ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something |
dedication | A ceremony in which something (as a building) is dedicated to some goal or purpose |
exercise | (usually plural) a ceremony that involves processions and speeches |
fire walking | The ceremony of walking barefoot over hot stones or a bed of embers |
formality, formalities | A requirement of etiquette or custom |
funeral, obsequy | A ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated |
initiation, induction, installation | A formal entry into an organization or position or office |
military ceremony | A formal ceremony performed by military personnel |
opening | A ceremony accompanying the start of some enterprise |
pageant, pageantry | A rich and spectacular ceremony |
potlatch | A ceremonial feast held by some Indians of the northwestern coast of North America (as in celebrating a marriage or a new accession) in which the host gives gifts to tribesmen and others to display his superior wealth (sometimes, formerly, to his own impoverishment) |
wedding, wedding ceremony, nuptials, hymeneals | The social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed |
Broader | affair, occasion, social occasion, function, social function | A vaguely specified social event |
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Spanish | ceremonial, ceremonia |
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Catalan | cerimonial, cerimònia |
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Adjectives | ceremonial | marked by pomp or ceremony or formality |
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