celebration

noun

Definition of celebrationnext
as in festival
a time or program of special events and entertainment in honor of something a celebration of the company's 100th anniversary

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  1. festival
  2. festivity
  3. fiesta
  4. jubilee
Noun
  • And the festival comes to a close, on Sunday, May 4, with a free show at Casa del Lago UNAM in Chapultepec Park.
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The festival has booked Gary Clark Jr., Bone-Thugs-N-Harmony, Ginuwine, Joy Oladokun and Mike Jones for the occasion, with further details to be announced.
    Piet Levy, Journal Sentinel, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of festival
Noun
  • How To Split Your Time Between Family This Christmas, According To Experts By Soo Kim Life and Trends Reporter 0 A video revealing a woman's shock upon learning that Americans do not traditionally include Christmas crackers in their holiday festivities has gone viral on TikTok.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
  • While celebrating and basking in the festivities, your love horoscope invites you to pause and reconsider your approach to romantic relationships.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 7 Dec. 2024
Definition of festivity
Noun
  • Sir Muck invites Yasmin to attend the ESG fiesta in Switzerland.
    Nina Li Coomes, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2024
  • But that’s not all; Black Friday is a fiesta for hackers, too, and the perfect time for social engineering attacks!
    Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report, Fox News, 23 Nov. 2024
Definition of fiesta
Noun
  • Alumni from each decade of Denver hockey will be in attendance to celebrate the program’s diamond jubilee.
    Leigh Walden, The Denver Post, 29 Oct. 2024
  • In April 1875, Jeans was commissioned by the directors of the North Eastern Railway, owners of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, to write a book celebrating the line’s jubilee in September of the same year.
    Carlton Reid, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
Definition of jubilee
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