Synonyms for ceremony

Synonyms for (noun) ceremony

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


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