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celebration noun 1. party, festival, gala, jubilee, festivity, rave (Brit. slang), junketing, beano (Brit. slang), revelry, red-letter day, rave-up (Brit. slang), merrymaking, jollification, carousal, -fest (in combination), hooley or hoolie (chiefly Irish & N.Z.) There was a celebration in our house that night. 2. commemoration, honouring, remembrance This was not a memorial service but a celebration of his life. 3. performance, observance, solemnization the celebration of Mass in Latin Translations celebration [ˌselɪˈbreɪʃən] N 2. (= party) → fiesta f, guateque m; (= festivity) → festividad f we must have a celebration → hay que celebrarlo or festejarlo, hay que hacer una fiesta the jubilee celebrations → las conmemoraciones or los festejos del aniversario celebration n (= party, festival) → Feier f; (= commemoration, jubilee also) → Gedenkfeier f; (= act of celebrating) → Feiern nt; during the centenary celebrations → während der Hundertjahrfeier(n); in celebration of → zur Feier (+gen) (= praise) → Verherrlichung f (of mass, ritual) → Zelebration f; (of communion) → Feier f celebration [ˌsɛlɪˈbreɪʃ/ən] n (act) → celebrazione f; (festivity) → celebrazione, festa celebration [ˌsɛlɪˈbreɪʃ/ən] n (act) → celebrazione f; (festivity) → celebrazione, festa How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Haarlem offered prizes for tulip-growing; and this fact brings us in the most natural manner to that celebration which the city intended to hold on May 15th, 1673 in honour of the great black tulip, immaculate and perfect, which should gain for its discoverer one hundred thousand guilders! Eight months after the celebration of the nuptials between Captain Blifil and Miss Bridget Allworthy, a young lady of great beauty, merit, and fortune, was Miss Bridget, by reason of a fright, delivered of a fine boy. I think that hardly less immoral than the lubricity of literature, and its celebration of the monkey and the goat in us, is the spectacle such criticism affords of the tigerish play of satire. |
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