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| Main Entry: |
celebration
 [sel-uh-brey-shuhn] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | commemoration of occasion, achievement |
| Synonyms: | anniversary, bash*, birthday, blast*, blowout, carousal, ceremony, conviviality, festival, festivity, fete, frolic, gaiety, gala, glorification, hilarity, honoring, hoopla, hullabaloo*, jollification, joviality, jubilation, jubilee, keeping, magnification, memorialization, merriment, merrymaking, observance, party, performance, recognition, remembrance, revelry, saturnalia, solemnization, spree, triumph, wingding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | acclaim |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expression of approval |
| Synonyms: | PR, acclamation, acknowledgment, applause, approbation, celebration, cheering, clapping, commendation, eulogizing, exaltation, honor, kudos, pat on the back, pat on the head, plaudits, praise, puff, pumping up, rave, recognition, strokes, stroking |
| Antonyms: | beratement, criticism, disapproval, jeering, vituperation |
| Main Entry: | bash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | party |
| Synonyms: | celebration, spree, wing-ding |
Example Sentences
- Make our platter the center of your next celebration.
- But a word of warning: promotion to a higher league is not always cause for celebration.
- It's time again for this week's celebration of self-evident but nonetheless necessary scientific foot soldiery.
| Main Entry: | commemoration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | honoring, observance |
| Synonyms: | celebration, ceremony, custom, memorial service, monumentalization, recognition, remembrance, tribute |
| Antonyms: | forgetting, neglect, negligence, unobservance |
| Main Entry: | commencement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ceremony marking the beginning of stage |
| Synonyms: | admission, alpha, birth, bow, celebration, convocation, countdown, curtain-raiser, dawn, dawning, genesis, graduation, initiation, kickoff, onset, opener, opening, outset, proem, services, start, starting point, tee off |
| Antonyms: | cessation, completion, end, ending, finish, stop |
| Main Entry: | dedication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | speech of praise; sanctification |
| Synonyms: | address, celebration, consecration, devotion, envoy, glorification, hallowing, inscription, message |
| Antonyms: | apathy |
| Main Entry: | dissipation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | amusement, entertainment, occasionally to excess |
| Synonyms: | bender, binge, blow-out, bust, celebration, circus, distraction, diversion, divertissement, gratification, party, recreation, self-indulgence, tear*, toot, wingding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | entertainment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | amusement, pleasure |
| Synonyms: | ball*, bash*, big time, blast*, blow out, celebration, cheer, clambake, delight, dissipation, distraction, diversion, divertissement, enjoyment, feast, frolic, fun, fun and games, gaiety, game, good time, grins, high time, laughs, leisure activity, lots of laughs, merriment, merrymaking, party, pastime, picnic, play, recreation, regalement, relaxation, relief, revelry, satisfaction, shindig*, sport, spree, surprise, treat, wingding |
| Antonyms: | chore, drudgery, labor, task, work |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | event |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | occurrence, happening |
| Synonyms: | accident, act, action, advent, adventure, affair, appearance, business, calamity, case, catastrophe, celebration, ceremony, chance, circumstance, coincidence, conjuncture, crisis, deed, development, emergency, episode, experience, exploit, fact, function, holiday, incident, juncture, marvel, matter, milestone, miracle, misfortune, mishap, mistake, occasion, occurrence, pass, phase, phenomenon, predicament, proceeding, shift, situation, story, thing*, tide, transaction, triumph, turn, wonder |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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