Dictionary Definition
celebrate
Verb
1 celebrate, as of holidays or rites; "Keep the
commandments"; "celebrate Christmas"; "Observe Yom Kippur" [syn:
observe, keep]
2 have a celebration; "They were feting the
patriarch of the family"; "After the exam, the students were
celebrating" [syn: fete]
3 assign great social importance to; "The film
director was celebrated all over Hollywood"; "The tenor was
lionized in Vienna" [syn: lionize, lionise]
User Contributed Dictionary
Verb
- To extol or honour in a solemn manner; as, to celebrate the name of the Most High.
- To honour by solemn rites, by ceremonies of joy and respect, or by refraining from ordinary business; to observe duly; to keep; as, to celebrate a birthday.
- To perform or participate in, as a sacrament or solemn rite; to solemnize; to perform with appropriate rites; as, to celebrate a marriage.
Related terms
Translations
to extol or honour in a solemn manner
- German: feiern, zelebrieren
to honour by solemn rites
- Czech: slavit
- German: feiern, zelebrieren
to perform or participate in
- German: feiern, zelebrieren
Italian
Verb form
celebrate- second-person plural indicative present of celebrare
- second-person plural imperative of celebrare
Extensive Definition
Celebration may refer to:
Celebration may also be:
- Celebration (song), a song by Kool & The Gang, notably covered by Kylie Minogue
- Celebration (Voices With Soul Song), the debut single from girl band, Voices With Soul
- Celebration (band), a Baltimore-based band
- Celebration (musical), a 1969 avante-garde musical theater work by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones
- Celebration (play), by Harold Pinter
- Celebration (painting), by Tyeb Mehta
- Celebration, Florida, a community in the United States
- Celebration, alternate title for the 1971 concert film Celebration at Big Sur
- Celebrations, a chocolate collection made by Mars, Inc.
- "A Celebration", a 1982 single by U2
- Star Wars Celebration, an official Star Wars convention
- Celebration (ship), a Holiday Class cruise ship operated by Carnival Cruise Lines
- The Celebration, 1998 Danish film
celebrate in Japanese: セレブレーション
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
administer Communion, adulate, advertise, apotheosize, attend
Communion, attend Mass, beat the drum, belaud, bepraise, blare, blare forth, blaze, blaze abroad, blazon, blazon about, bless, bless the Lord, blow the
trumpet, blow up, boast of, brag about, broadcast, carouse, celebrate Mass,
commemorate,
communicate,
consecrate, conventionalize,
cry, cry out, cry up, cut
loose, debauch, declaim, dedicate, deify, dignify, doxologize, dress ship,
emblazon, eulogize, exalt, extol, fire a salute, flatter, formalize, glorify, glorify the Lord,
hallow, hell around,
herald, herald abroad,
hero-worship, hold, hold
jubilee, honor, hymn, idolize, jollify, jolly, jubilate, jubilize, keep, lark, laud, let go, let loose, let off
steam, lionize, maffick, magnify, make merry, make much
of, make whoopee, mark,
memorialize,
observe, overpraise, panegyrize, party, pay tribute, perform, porter aux nues,
praise, praise God,
proclaim, promulgate, publicize, puff, puff up, raise hell, receive
the Sacrament, rejoice in, revel, ritualize, roister, salute, sanctify, see life, shout, signalize, sing praises,
skylark, solemnize, solemnly mark,
sound a fanfare, spree,
step out, stylize,
thunder, thunder forth,
trumpet, trumpet forth,
wanton, wassail, whoop it
up