| ceremony | | |
| n. (event) | 1. ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, ceremony, observance | a formal event performed on a special occasion.; "a ceremony commemorating Pearl Harbor" |
| ~ social function, social occasion, occasion, affair, function | a vaguely specified social event.; "the party was quite an affair"; "an occasion arranged to honor the president"; "a seemingly endless round of social functions" |
| ~ circumstance | formal ceremony about important occasions.; "pomp and circumstance" |
| ~ funeral | a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated.; "hundreds of people attended his funeral" |
| ~ hymeneals, nuptials, wedding, wedding ceremony | the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed. |
| ~ pageantry, pageant | a rich and spectacular ceremony. |
| ~ dedication | a ceremony in which something (as a building) is dedicated to some goal or purpose. |
| ~ opening | a ceremony accompanying the start of some enterprise. |
| ~ commemoration, memorialisation, memorialization | a ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something. |
| ~ military ceremony | a formal ceremony performed by military personnel. |
| ~ induction, initiation, installation | a formal entry into an organization or position or office.; "his initiation into the club"; "he was ordered to report for induction into the army"; "he gave a speech as part of his installation into the hall of fame" |
| ~ exercise | (usually plural) a ceremony that involves processions and speeches.; "academic exercises" |
| ~ fire walking | the ceremony of walking barefoot over hot stones or a bed of embers. |
| ~ formalities, formality | a requirement of etiquette or custom.; "a mere formality" |
| ~ maundy | a public ceremony on Maundy Thursday when the monarch distributes Maundy money. |
| ~ potlatch | a ceremonial feast held by some Indians of the northwestern coast of North America (as in celebrating a marriage or a new accession) in which the host gives gifts to tribesmen and others to display his superior wealth (sometimes, formerly, to his own impoverishment). |
| n. (act) | 2. ceremony | 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" |
| ~ activity | any specific behavior.; "they avoided all recreational activity" |
| ~ chanoyu, tea ceremony | an ancient ritual for preparing and serving and drinking tea. |
| n. (act) | 3. ceremony | the proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion.; "an inaugural ceremony" |
| ~ groundbreaking, groundbreaking ceremony | the ceremonial breaking of the ground to formally begin a construction project. |
| ~ purgation, purification | a ceremonial cleansing from defilement or uncleanness by the performance of appropriate rites. |
| ~ activity | any specific behavior.; "they avoided all recreational activity" |
| ~ lustrum | a ceremonial purification of the Roman population every five years following the census. |
| ~ religious ceremony, religious ritual | a ceremony having religious meaning. |
| ~ military ceremony | a military custom performed in observance of some event or anniversary. |
| ~ presentation | the activity of formally presenting something (as a prize or reward).; "she gave the trophy but he made the presentation" |
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