Synonyms: 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
Similar words: activity
Definition: any specific behavior
Usage: they avoided all recreational activity
Synonyms: ceremony
Definition: the proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion
Usage: an inaugural ceremony
Similar words: activity
Definition: any specific behavior
Usage: they avoided all recreational activity
Synonyms: ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, ceremony, observance
Definition: a formal event performed on a special occasion
Usage: a ceremony commemorating Pearl Harbor
Similar words: social function, social occasion, occasion, affair, function
Definition: a vaguely specified social event
Usage: the party was quite an affair; an occasion arranged to honor the president; a seemingly endless round of social functions