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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Celebration \Cel`e*bra"tion\, n. [L. celebratio.]
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
celebration
n 1: an occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event
2: any festival or other celebration [syn: {festivity}]
3: the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony
with all appropriate ritual; "the celebration of marriage"
[syn: {solemnization}]
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