English > observance: 4 senses > noun 2, event| Meaning | A formal event performed on a special occasion. |
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| Synonyms | ceremony, ceremonial, ceremonial occasion |
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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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| Verbs | observe | behave as expected during of holidays or rites |
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