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1. A joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event
   - jubilation
    
2. Any joyous diversion
   - festivity
    
3. The public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual
   "the celebration of marriage";
   - solemnization, solemnisation [Brit]

Derived forms: celebrations

Type of: affair, diversion, function, occasion, recreation, ritual, social function, social occasion

Encyclopedia: Celebration, florida