Celebration,

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Celebration \Cel`e*bra"tion\, n. [L. celebratio.]
     The act, process, or time of celebrating.
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           His memory deserving a particular celebration.
                                                    --Clarendok.


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           Celebration of Mass is equivalent to offering Mass
                                                    --Cath. Dict.
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           To hasten the celebration of their marriage. --Sir P.
                                                    Sidney.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  celebration
       n 1: a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy
            event [syn: {jubilation}]
       2: any joyous diversion [syn: {festivity}]
       3: the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony
          with all appropriate ritual; "the celebration of marriage"
          [syn: {solemnization}, {solemnisation}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  138 Moby Thesaurus words for "celebration":
     Sabbatarianism, 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, 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
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  CELEBRATION, contracts. This word is usually applied, in law, to the 
  celebration of marriage, which is the solemn act by which a man and woman 
  take each other for husband and wife, conformably to the rules prescribed by 
  law. Diet. de Juris. h.t. 
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Celebration, FL -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Florida
     Population (2000):    2736
     Housing Units (2000): 1093
     Land area (2000):     10.669265 sq. miles (27.633268 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.028096 sq. miles (0.072769 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    10.697361 sq. miles (27.706037 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            11285
     Located within:       Florida (FL), FIPS 12
     Location:             28.320059 N, 81.540149 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):    
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Celebration, FL
      Celebration