(v. t.) To extol or honor in a solemn manner; as, to celebrate the name of the Most High.
(v. t.) To honor by solemn rites, by ceremonies of joy and respect, or by refraining from ordinary business; to observe duly; to keep; as, to celebrate a birthday.
(v. t.) To perform or participate in, as a sacrament or solemn rite; to solemnize; to perform with appropriate rites; as, to celebrate a marriage.
Example Sentences:
(1) says Gregg Wallace opening the new series of Celebrity MasterChef (Mon-Fri, 2.15pm, BBC1).
(2) Fatah leader Yahya Rabah said the organisation would celebrate "with our brothers in Hamas", the Ma'an news agency reported.
(3) If you want to become a summit celebrity be sure to strike a pose whenever you see the ENB photographer approaching.
(4) There are many examples to support his assertion, yet for the most part, it is celebrities who dictate what images can be published and what stories should be told.
(5) On a weekend that sees the country celebrate 50 years of independence it is certain that despite all things – good and bad – that have taken place in 2013, the next 50 years will be transformed by personal technology, concerned citizens and the media.
(6) The supporters – many of them wearing Hamas green headbands and carrying Hamas flags – packed the open-air venue in rain and strong winds to celebrate the Islamist organisation's 25th anniversary and what it regards as a victory in last month's eight-day war with Israel.
(7) They had watched him celebrate mass with three million pilgrims on the packed-out shores of Copacabana beach .
(8) July 7, 2016 Verified account A blue tick that tells you the user is either an A-list celebrity, a respected authority on an important subject or a BuzzFeed employee.
(9) Celebrity woodlanders Tax breaks and tree-hugging already draw the wealthy and well-known to buy British forests.
(10) Arsenal’s 10 men fall at the first hurdle against Dinamo Zagreb Read more This win, even against such feeble opponents, was celebrated, with the locals chorusing their manager’s name amid a wave of relief given so much of the team’s domestic campaign to date has been dismal.
(11) The writer Palesa Morudu told me that she sees, in the South African pride that "we did it", a troubling anxiety that we can't: "Why are we celebrating that we built stadiums on time?
(12) My boyfriend and I headed to a sushi bar to celebrate.
(13) In early 2009, he took part in Celebrity Big Brother for a rumoured fee of £100,000.
(14) Lion cubs fathered by Cecil, the celebrated lion shot dead in Zimbabwe , may already have been killed by a rival male lion and even if they were still alive there was nothing conservationists could do to protect them, a conservation charity has warned.
(15) We used to have a really good night in here on Bonfire night.” Communities across the UK are facing the same unwillingness by civic bodies to stage Bonfire night celebrations.
(16) Perhaps it’s the lot of people like my colleagues here in the centre and me to wrestle with our consciences, shed tears, lose sleep and try to make the best of a very bad, heart-breaking job and leave the rest of the world to party, get pissed and celebrate Christmas.
(17) Two days after Michael Morpurgo, author of War Horse , published a beautiful essay calling for this year's First World War commemorations to " honour those who died " and "celebrate the peace we now share", Michael Gove has delivered the government's response.
(18) Roche, 30, was born in High Wycombe, but moved with her British parents to Germany as a young child, and has been a national celebrity there since her teens, presenting music and culture shows.
(19) Trawling through the private telephone conversations of royals, politicians and celebrities in the hope of picking up scandalous gossip is not seen as legitimate news gathering and the techniques of entrapment which led to the recent Pakistani match-fixing scandal , although grudgingly admired in this particular case, are derided as manufacturing the news.
(20) The 2014 MTV Video Music Awards didn’t achieve the same degree of controversy as last year’s celebration of tongues, twerking and teddy bears , but between a speech by a homeless teen, an ill-timed wardrobe malfunction, and Beyoncé’s spectacular, epic, show-stopping finale, there were nevertheless a few moments worth watching.
Fete
Definition:
(n.) A feat.
(n. pl.) Feet.
(n.) A festival.
(v. t.) To feast; to honor with a festival.
Example Sentences:
(1) The only thing Michael Fabricant could reasonably be vice-chairman of is the steering committee of Nurse Ratched 's ward fete.
(2) Gen Pinochet was also under indictment in three cases stemming from the 3,000 people killed and thousands tortured during his regime, when he was feted by Washington as a bulwark against communism.
(3) Bath-shaped recession If viewed huffily by his own peers, Sorrell is feted elsewhere, with invitations to the Obama inauguration and to the World Economic Forum in Davos.
(4) There, he has been feted by the king for making investments abroad to keep the kingdom fed.
(5) Biggs wasn't a cuddly heart of gold cockney character to be feted .
(6) Carney arrived at Threadneedle Street by tube shortly before 7am, ahead of most camera crews and photographers hoping to catch a glimpse of the governor feted as the rock star of central banking.
(7) But it may not have been coincidence that two months later, Farage was being feted by Murdoch’s the Times, which dubbed the controversial leader “Man of the Moment” .
(8) Bond doesn't expect WI sales at local fetes and markets to be affected as the biscuits and preserves "have been made in members' kitchens in limited quantities, as opposed to the WI Foods products that are produced by small-scale family manufacturers in larger quantities for the general public".
(9) Considered by many to be a giant in the intellectual world, Judt chronicled his illness in unsparing detail in public lectures and essays – giving an extraordinary account that won him almost as much respect as his voluminous historical and political work, for which he was feted on both sides of the Atlantic.
(10) And as for his much-feted reticence and unwillingness to be made into a 'personality' himself well, you'd have to say that was the icing on the cake.
(11) While here they were being feted, going to the match, invited to the House of Commons to meet the all-party football group, as well as a return to the scene of their triumph, Middlesbrough.
(12) In 1896, Bridget Driscoll was attending a summer fete in Crystal Palace, London, when a car travelling at a “tremendous pace” – somewhere under its top speed of eight miles per hour – struck and killed her.
(13) They are its flower arrangers and cleaners, its priests’ housekeepers and its soup kitchen operators, its fete organisers and its catechists .
(14) Two years ago Leahy had appeared to retire on a high when he was feted by outgoing chairman David Reid as "undoubtedly one of the leading businessmen of his generation … [who] has put in place a strategy which can secure the progress of Tesco for years go come."
(15) But by feting two cynical politicians who have sought to harness religious feelings for their own agendas, as Abbas is doing now with the furore over the Jerusalem mosques and Peres did nearly 40 years ago – when, as defence minister, he authorised the first settlements in the West Bank, in the hope the settlers would support him against his rival Yitzhak Rabin – the pope helped perpetuate the myth.
(16) Harris, for example, has been feted by Spotify, but also played Apple’s iTunes Festival in London this month.
(17) Sisi was feted when he attended the World Economic Forum in Davos last month.
(18) The first African American to run the Department of Justice was feted by the president as the “people’s lawyer”: a champion of voter rights, same-sex marriage, sentencing reform and civil liberties.
(19) Though he would go on to become feted by the fashion establishment, he never lost the anarchic approach of his youth.
(20) Oh, and by the way: While the Tories were celebrating the defeat of Ed Balls, I wonder how many of them reflected that the much-feted powers of the Bank of England to aim at sufficient growth to achieve the inflation target were the work of Brown and Balls, as was the curbing of Tony Blair’s wish to take the UK into the euro.