celebration Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event
    jubilation.
  2. noun any joyous diversion
    festivity.
  3. noun the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual
    solemnisation; solemnization.
    • the celebration of marriage

WordNet

Cel`e*bra"tion noun
Etymology
L. celebratio.
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913