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1. A formal event performed on a special occasion
   "a ceremony commemorating Pearl Harbor"
   - ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, observance
    
2. Any activity that is performed in an especially solemn elaborate or formal way
   "the ceremony of smelling the cork and tasting the wine"; "he makes a ceremony of addressing his golf ball"; "he disposed of it without ceremony"
    
3. The proper or conventional behaviour on some solemn occasion
   "an inaugural ceremony"

Derived forms: ceremonies

See also: ceremonial, ceremonious

Type of: activity, affair, function, occasion, social function, social occasion

Encyclopedia: Ceremony