Celebration

Noun

 * 1) The formal performance of a solemn rite, such as Christian sacrament
 * 2) The observance of a holiday or feast day, as by solemnities
 * 3) The act, process of showing appreciation, gratitude and/or remembrance, notably as a social event.
 * 4) A social gathering for entertainment and fun; a party.

Adjectives for Celebration
bicentenary; misconstrued; elaborate; decennial; gaudy; monster; roaring; barbarous; deliberate; raucous; gory; gorgeous; discreet; jubilant; enthusiastic; centenary; forthcoming; final; dramatic; flourished;

Verbs for Celebration
arrange for—; climax—; deserve—; disturb —; enter—; extol—; fete with—; hold—; indulge in—; launch—; observe—; plan—; retain—; —commemorates; —exhausts; — honors; —overjoys; —surprises.

Synonyms for Celebration
observance, commemoration, glorification, merrymaking, festivity, gaiety, frolic, hilarity, joviality, merriment.

Antonyms for Celebration
grief, sadness, solemnity, sorrow, mourning, wailing, lamentation, depression, melancholy.

Related terms

 * celebrant
 * celebrat
 * celebrator
 * celebrity

Thesaurus
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, 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,

Translations

 * Arabic: احتفال
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 慶典,
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * German:


 * Japanese: お祝い, ,
 * Romanian: sărbătorire, celebrare, festivitate
 * Russian: празднование,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: Kutlama


 * Afrikaans: selebrasie
 * Arabic: احتفال
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: тържество, празнуване
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Croatian: slavlje
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: ზეიმი
 * German: ,


 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hindi:
 * Japanese: お祝い, ,
 * Malay: perayaan
 * Norwegian: feiring, feiring
 * Romanian: sărbătoare, petrecere, serbare
 * Russian: празднование,
 * Sranan:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tatar:
 * Turkish:
 * Wolof: feet


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Hebrew: חגיגה (khagiga)
 * Malayalam: ആഘോഷം (aaghosham)


 * Romanian: festivitate, celebrare
 * Serbian:
 * Swahili: