[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

celebration \cel`ebra"tion\, n. l. celebratio.
   the act, process, or time of celebrating.
   1913 webster

         his memory deserving a particular celebration.
                                                  --clarendok.
   1913 webster

         celebration of mass is equivalent to offering mass
                                                  --cath. dict.
   1913 webster

         to hasten the celebration of their marriage. --sir p.
                                                  sidney.
   1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

celebration
     n 1: a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy
          event syn: jubilation
     2: any joyous diversion syn: festivity
     3: the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony
        with all appropriate ritual; "the celebration of marriage"
        syn: solemnization, solemnisation
see also:
jubilation festivity solemnization solemnisation 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

138 moby thesaurus words for "celebration":
   sabbatarianism, agape, asperges, aspersion, auricular confession,
   baccalaureate service, bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian,
   banquet, bar mitzvah, bas mitzvah, bat, bender, binge, bout, bust,
   carousal, carouse, ceremonial, ceremonialism, ceremony,
   circumcision, commemoration, commencement, compotation, confession,
   confirmation, convocation, cult, cultism, cultus, debauch,
   drinking bout, drunk, drunken carousal, elation, empty formality,
   escapade, exercise, exercises, exultation, feast, festivity, fete,
   fling, formal, formalism, formality, frolic, function, gala,
   graduation, graduation exercises, guzzle, hallowing,
   high celebration, hoopla, inaugural, inauguration, incense,
   initiation, invocation, invocation of saints, jag, joyance,
   jubilance, jubilation, jubilee, kiss of peace, lark, lesser litany,
   litany, liturgics, liturgiology, liturgism, liturgy, love feast,
   lustration, mad round, memorialization, merriment, merrymaking,
   mummery, observance, observation, office, orgy, party, pax,
   performance, ploy, potation, praising, processional, pub-crawl,
   randan, randy, raucous happiness, reciting the rosary, regale,
   regalement, rejoicing, religious ceremony, revel, revelment,
   revelry, rite, rite de passage, rite of passage, ritual, ritualism,
   rituality, ritualization, round of pleasures, sabbatism,
   sacramentalism, sacramentarianism, sanctification, service,
   show of joy, solemn observance, solemnity, solemnization, spree,
   symbolics, symbolism, symposium, tear, telling of beads,
   the confessional, the confessionary, toot, treat, triumph, wassail,
   whoopee, wingding

[4] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

celebration, contracts. this word is usually applied, in law, to the 
celebration of marriage, which is the solemn act by which a man and woman 
take each other for husband and wife, conformably to the rules prescribed by 
law. diet. de juris. h.t. 

[5] : U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)

celebration, fl -- u.s. census designated place in florida
   population 2000:    2736
   housing units 2000: 1093
   land area 2000:     10.669265 sq. miles 27.633268 sq. km
   water area 2000:    0.028096 sq. miles 0.072769 sq. km
   total area 2000:    10.697361 sq. miles 27.706037 sq. km
   fips code:            11285
   located within:       florida fl, fips 12
   location:             28.320059 n, 81.540149 w
   zip codes 1990:    
   note: some zip codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   headwords:
    celebration, fl
    celebration

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