Main entry: ceremony
Definition: any activity that is performed in an especially solemn elaborate or formal way
Usage: 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
Main entry: ceremony
Definition: the proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion
Usage: an inaugural ceremony
Main entry: ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, ceremony, observance
Definition: a formal event performed on a special occasion
Usage: a ceremony commemorating Pearl Harbor