(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.
Triumphal
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to triumph; used in a triumph; indicating, or in honor of, a triumph or victory; as, a triumphal crown; a triumphal arch.
(n.) A token of victory.
Example Sentences:
(1) But one thing that distinguishes today's establishment from earlier incarnations is its sense of triumphalism.
(2) That triumphal speech was his apex, the acme, the zenith of his career.
(3) Let other 2014 commemorations of war dwell on reconciliation or shrink from triumphalism: next summer, visitors to Bannockburn's Live will enjoy a feast of martial entertainments, including, says Visit Scotland , "a spectacular re-enactment of this iconic battle close to the original site".
(4) The misery of the left was, in the 1980s, matched by the triumphalism of the free marketeers, who had transformed Britain beyond many of their wildest ambitions, and began to balk at the restraints put on their dreams by the European project.
(5) Without a trace of triumphalism, Enders says that Bowdler has now "apologised for treating me like a lunatic".
(6) This Oscar list – and I think this award season – has a quiet triumphalism to it, an assertion of traditional mainstream Hollywood liberal values at a time when President Obama has been returned to office and the Republican right has retreated, although it is a very mainstream liberalism, and the hero of Spielberg's film is a Republican.
(7) The replaying of their triumphal re-entry into the street outside the Old Bailey triggers only partial recollection; Richard McIlkenny steady and philosophical, "Every dog has his day"; Billy Power, looking ahead, thinking of others – "Judith Ward, the Bridgewater Four."
(8) There is a rotunda decorated with Third Reich-esque golden statues; a monument to wartime partisans at a table on a plinth; and, of course, a Triumphal Arch, which the government listed as a “national treasure” as soon as it was constructed – all crammed into a space the size of one city square.
(9) Geller's answer is that the planned centre is viewed by Muslims as a "triumphal" monument built on "conquered land".
(10) But the triumphalism was punctured by conflicting accounts of how Yusuf died.
(11) The air of triumphalism that the prosecution brought was not lost on any of us,” juror four wrote to the Oregonian newspaper, “nor was it warranted given their burden of proof.” Mark Pitcavage of the Anti-Defamation League, one of America’s foremost authorities on rightwing extremism, said he could only imagine that courtroom dynamics along these lines had undone what had otherwise seemed like a very strong government case.
(12) Earlier in the day protesters had refused to leave Triumphal Square.
(13) Caesar Poblicks , an analyst at the London-based consultancy Conciliation Resources, said one of the greatest challenges facing Samba-Panza was a sense of triumphalism among the Anti-Balaka.
(14) But the Tory leader said that there would be "no hint of triumphalism" because the Conservatives had to show that they deserved the support of former Labour voters.
(15) Oronto Douglas, a senior adviser to the president, said: "This is no time for triumphalism.
(16) None of these players should significantly delay Williams on her path to the first calendar grand slam since Steffi Graf’s in 1988 – but there is no sense of triumphalism in the champion’s camp – far from it.
(17) There was a conscious lack of triumphalism about last week's Tory conference.
(18) It’s almost as though Toned Abs did it to distract attention from the drunken triumphalism of white Australia twerking in the face of the continent’s original peoples.
(19) With women, that leaking happens when others steal the images from their phones, and the response here is darker, sexual, triumphal.
(20) His actual return to Santiago in March was one of forced triumphalism by his supporters.