Ceremony

Noun

 * 1) A ritual with religious significance.
 * 2) An official gathering to celebrate, commemorate, or otherwise mark some event.
 * 3) Formal socially-established behaviour often in relation to people of different ranks.

Adjectives for Ceremony
preparatory; customary; lawful; scant; whimsical; decent; curious; fetish-like; anointing; approaching; diabolical; bloody dedicatory; solemn; picturesque; ancient ;hazardous; occult; impressive; religious; elaborate; tedious; appalling; venerable appropriate; outrageous; stately; somber reverent; enforced; time-consecrated; incongruous; peculiar; inauguration; imposing; formal; august; notable; gracious futile;  melancholy;  fantastic;  colorful calm; dignified; punctilious; grim; savage icy; painful; superstitious; primitive; undue; funeral; final; outward; ritualistic appointed.

Verbs for Ceremony
beautify—; bore with—; endure—; enrich—; observe—; officiate at—; preserve—; ritualize—; shorten—; stand on—; wed with—; —commemorates; —drags; —entails; —honors; —ruffles.

Synonyms for Ceremony
rite, ritual, solemnity, protocol, formality, observance, form.

Derived terms

 * ceremonial
 * ceremonially
 * ceremonialness
 * ceremonious
 * ceremoniously
 * ceremoniousness

Thesaurus
festivity, flourish of trumpets, form, form of worship, formal, formalities, formality, formalization, formula, formulary, function, gentilities, graces, graduation, graduation exercises, gravity, holiday, holy rite, impersonality, inaugural, inauguration, initiation, institution, jubilee, liturgy, marking the occasion, memorialization, memory, mode of worship, motions, mummery, mystery, niceties, obsequies, observance, office, order of worship, ordinance, ovation, performance, pomp, pomposity, practice, prescribed form, primness, proprieties, protocol, rejoicing, religious ceremony, religious rites, remembrance, revel, rigidness, rite, rite de passage, rite of passage, rites, ritual, ritual observance, rituality, rituals, sacrament, sacramental, salute, salvo, service, solemn observance, solemnity, solemnization, starchiness, stiffness, stiltedness, stylization, testimonial, testimonial banquet, testimonial dinner, toast, tribute, triumph, weight, amenities, anniversaries, appearances, baccalaureate service, buckram, celebrating, celebration, ceremonial, ceremonies, ceremoniousness, civilities, commemoration, commencement, convention, conventions, convocation, decorum, dignities, dignity, dressing ship, duty, elegancies, empty formality, etiquette, exercise, exercises, extrinsicality, fanfare, fanfaronade,

Etymology
From <  caerimonia: or caeremonia:, later often cerimonia:.

Translations

 * Arabic: مراسم, طقوس, طقس مقدس
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Croatian:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: tseremoonia
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ცერემონია, წესჩვეულება
 * Georgian: ცერემონია, წესჩვეულება


 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: 예식, [儀式], 식전
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ceremonie
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu: ఉత్సవం (utsavam)
 * Thai:, พิธีกรรม
 * Turkish: seremoni
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:, nghi lễ
 * Vietnamese:, nghi lễ


 * Arabic: رسميات, مراسم, حفل
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 典禮, 典礼,
 * Croatian: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: tseremoonia
 * French:


 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: טקס (t'eqes)
 * Icelandic: athöfn
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 典礼,, セレモニー
 * Romanian: ceremonie
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Telugu: వేడుక (veaDuka)


 * Arabic: حفل رسمي
 * Bulgarian: етикет
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 儀禮, 仪礼
 * Finnish:


 * Greek:
 * Japanese: 儀礼
 * Russian: этикет
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Thai: พิธีการ