Word Meanings - CELEBRATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act, process, or time of celebrating. His memory deserving a particular celebration. Clarendok. Celebration of Mass is equivalent to offering Mass Cath. Dict. To hasten the celebration of their marriage. Sir P. Sidney.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CELEBRATION)

• Memorial
• Monument
• record
• memento
• celebration
• remembrance
• relic
• inscription
• Observance
• Attention
• fulfilment
• respect
• performance
• ceremony
• custom
• form
• rule
• practice
• Rite
• Form
• observance
• usage
• Solemnity
• Celebration
• rite
• office
• function
• pomp
• parade
• seriousness
• pomposity
• gravity
• sacredness
• awe
• sanctity
• impressiveness
• imposingness

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CELEBRATION)

• Obliviate
• silentiate
• suppress
• Overlook
• disregard
• dishonor
• despise
• contemn

Related words: (words related to CELEBRATION)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• RELICT
  A woman whose husband is dead; a widow. Eli dying without issue, Jacob was obbliged by law to marry his relict, and so to raise up seed to his brother Eli. South.
• RESPECT
  An expression of respect of deference; regards; as, to send one's respects to another. 4. Reputation; repute. Many of the best respect in Rome. Shak. 5. Relation; reference; regard. They believed but one Supreme Deity, which, with respect to the
• IMPOSINGNESS
  The quality of being imposing.
• MEMORIAL DAY
  A day, May 30, appointed for commemorating, by decorating their graves with flowers, by patriotic exercises, etc., the dead soldiers and sailors who served the Civil War in the United States; Decoration Day. It is a legal holiday in most of the
• FUNCTION; FUNCTIONATE
  To execute or perform a function; to transact one's regular or appointed business.
• RESPECTER
  One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x.
• CONTEMNER
  One who contemns; a despiser; a scorner. "Contemners of the gods." South.
• PRACTICER
  1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
• INSCRIPTION
  A line of division or intersection; as, the tendinous inscriptions, or intersections, of a muscle. 4. An address, consignment, or informal dedication, as of a book to a person, as a mark of respect or an invitation of patronage. (more info) 1.
• MEMENTO MORI
  Lit., remember to die, i.e., that you must die; a warning to be prepared for death; an object, as a death's-head or a personal ornament, usually emblematic, used as a reminder of death.
• CUSTOMARY
  A book containing laws and usages, or customs; as, the Customary of the Normans. Cowell.
• CELEBRATION
  The act, process, or time of celebrating. His memory deserving a particular celebration. Clarendok. Celebration of Mass is equivalent to offering Mass Cath. Dict. To hasten the celebration of their marriage. Sir P. Sidney.
• MEMORIALIZER
  One who petitions by a memorial. T. Hook.
• MEMORIALIZE
  To address or petition by a memorial; to present a memorial to; as, to memorialize the legislature. T. Hook.
• CUSTOMABLE
  1. Customary. Sir T. More. 2. Subject to the payment of customs; dutiable.
• OFFICE WIRE
  Copper wire with a strong but light insulation, used in wiring houses, etc.
• FUNCTION
  The appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of leaves, sap, roots, etc.; life is the sum of the functions of the various organs and parts of the
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• ACCUSTOMARILY
  Customarily.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• ACCUSTOMEDNESS
  Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.
• BOOKING OFFICE
  1. An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship. 2. An office where passage tickets are sold.
• CROWN OFFICE
  The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.
• INSUPPRESSIBLE
  That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.
• UNREMEMBRANCE
  Want of remembrance; forgetfulness. I. Watts.
• BY-RESPECT
  Private end or view; by-interest. Dryden.
• DISACCUSTOM
  To destroy the force of habit in; to wean from a custom. Johnson.
• CUSTOM
  Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription. Note: Usage is a fact. Custom is a law. There can be no custom without usage, though there may be usage without