Meaning of celebration in English

celebration

noun

/ˌsel.əˈbreɪ.ʃən/ us

/ˌsel.əˈbreɪ.ʃən/

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a special social event, such as a party, when you celebrate something:

There were lively New Year celebrations all over town.

call for a celebration Such good news calls for (= deserves) a celebration!

[ U ]

the act of celebrating something:

in celebration of Let's buy some champagne in celebration of her safe arrival.

[ C ]

an act of dancing, shouting, etc., to show that you are happy after you have succeeded at something:

He likes to get his teammates excited with his theatrical celebrations.

The referee penalized the wide receiver because his touchdown celebration was excessive.

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If ever there was a cause for celebration, this peace treaty was it.
They planned a special celebration for her homecoming.
A celebration is held for the boy at the age when he is considered to have reached manhood.
The ending of the war is not a cause for celebration, but rather for regret that it ever happened.
This calls for a celebration!

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(Definition of celebration from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of celebration

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Popes and kings, however, wanted this glory as a backdrop to their processions and celebrations, to impress the people and provide the required spectacle.

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Secondly, families took an active part in celebrations for the nuns' entrance into religious life and profession.

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The structure and form of the celebrations sought to bind the city's political leaders together with local leaders in a joint enterprise.

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All these events naturally led to large and small celebrations attended by participants and their supporters.

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Often the local groups sang, danced and cooked for celebratory functions, in welcoming official guests of local dignitaries or in political celebrations.

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Modest celebrations were also often cobbled together for first-born children.

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In this he acts as a brake on multiculturalist celebrations of difference by refusing to accept the performance of his ethnicity as inevitable.

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Traditional celebrations honor individual heroism, not the mere act of survival in a modern war.

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She oversees the cooking, the entertaining of female guests, the servants' lives and marriages, the haveli celebrations, and even the affairs of the junior relatives.

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Samogon was certainly used as a medium of exchange, as well as for customary celebrations.

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The naval celebrations of this era were a central medium in the active promotion of peacetime service reputations.

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The lessons are given a theatrical touch, explained as a story-telling style, not otherwise familiar in celebrations of the liturgy.

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First, these celebrations saw the transposition of the chants and readings of the most private of canonical hours to an eminently public venue.

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Even here, there is no surviving indication whether the celebrations were directly associated with the final religious confirmation of the marriage.

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Undine claims her faithless lover during his wedding celebrations.

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annual celebration

He gained local notice when he persuaded his company to forgo the customary liquor at their annual celebration.

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birthday celebration

Each year a birthday celebration concert is held in his honor.

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centennial celebration

The awarding of this medal took place only once by design, as it was linked to a centennial celebration event.

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in Chinese (Traditional)

慶祝活動, 慶祝會, 慶祝，慶賀…

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