celebrate
IPA: sˈɛɫʌbreɪt
verb
- (transitive) To extol or honour in a solemn manner.
- (transitive) To honour by rites, by ceremonies of joy and respect, or by refraining from ordinary business; to observe duly.
- (intransitive) To engage in joyful activity in appreciation of an event.
- (transitive) To perform or participate in, as a sacrament or solemn rite; to perform with appropriate rites.
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Examples of "celebrate" in Sentences
- The women celebrated Tom's birthday.
- The couple celebrated their anniversary.
- And, how did Carlin celebrate his unexpected victory?
- To celebrate your promotion, I will treat you next week.
- They are about to celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary.
- In 2007 the Lauterbach celebrated the 100th anniversary of the tower.
- The same sentiment goes for Erin Brown's choice of the word "celebrate."
- The anniversary of the foundation of the district is celebrated on May 3.
- The whole Ebony article was to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Thriller.
- Still, he held out the possibility that Nikliborc could again celebrate Mass.
- In 2010, the Botanical Garden celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Climatron.
- But we don't spend it at home and the Christmas we celebrate is so different from the one I had as a child.
- Our hooping community continues to grow and we once again celebrate our hooping “newbies” that started hooping in 2008 and are already making their mark.
- Sometimes the best thing for us to celebrate is the mere fact that we've made it to this point in life, especially if things have been challenging, which for many of us they have been recently and/or at times in our lives.
- If you haven't encountered it before, you might just over the next few days, as knitters across Britain celebrate wool week by "tagging" lamp-posts with knitted doilies, wrapping public statues in scarves and sending knitted animals scurrying about city streets.
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