Antonyms for ceremony
ˈsɛr əˌmoʊ nicer·e·mo·ny

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1. ceremony

   Any religious act, especially a public act, viewed as a means of serving God is called a service; the word commonly includes the entire series of exercises of a single occasion of public worship. A religious service ordained as an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace is called a sacrament. Ceremony is a form expressing reverence, or at least respect; we may speak of religious ceremonies, the ceremonies of polite society, the ceremonies of a coronation, an inauguration, etc. An observance has more than a formal obligation, reaching or approaching a religious sacredness; a stated religious observance, viewed as established by authority, is called an ordinance; viewed as an established custom, it is a rite. The terms sacrament and ordinance, in the religious sense, are often used interchangeably; the ordinance derives its sacredness from the authority that ordained it, while the sacrament possesses a sacredness due to something in itself, even when viewed simply as a representation or memorial. The Lord's Supper is the Scriptural name for the observance commemorating the death of Christ; the word communion is once applied to it (1 Cor. x, 16), but not as a distinctive name; at an early period, however, the name communion was so applied, as denoting the communing of Christians with their Lord, or with one another. The term eucharist describes the Lord's Supper as a thanksgiving service; it is also called by preeminence the sacrament, as the ratifying of a solemn vow of consecration to Christ.

   Synonyms:
   communion, eucharist, Lord's Supper, observance, ordinance, rite, sacrament, service, solemnity

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1. ceremony

   Synonyms:
   display, pageant, solemnity, rite, formality

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1. ceremony, ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, observancenoun

   a formal event performed on a special occasion

   "a ceremony commemorating Pearl Harbor"

   Synonyms:
   observation, watching, honoring, ceremonial occasion, ceremonial, notice, observance

2. ceremonynoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   observance, ceremonial, ceremonial occasion

3. ceremonynoun

   the proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion

   "an inaugural ceremony"

   Synonyms:
   observance, ceremonial, ceremonial occasion

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1. ceremonynoun

   Synonyms:
   rite, form, ceremonial, solemnity, formality

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1. ceremony

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   See White Coat ceremony
   

How to use ceremony in a sentence?

1. Henry James:

   Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

2. Conrad Tribble:

   I would love to see the entire ceremony but we are Foreign Service officers and at some point you have to go, there's been a lot of hard work that went into this but it's the right thing to do and to wake up on a historic day is actually pretty cool.

3. Jay Foster:

   That’s what we felt like our graduation ceremony had been turned into, it was who can be the loudest – who can take the attention away from the kids the most.

4. Jeremy Corbyn:

   It was a respectful ceremony and I stood in respect throughout it.

5. Will Claye:

   My first Olympics in 2012, I walked and I was able to meet and take pictures with some of my idols in sport, some of the athletes that I look up to like Kobe( Bryant), LeBron( James) and actually being able to spend time with these people while we were preparing to do Opening Ceremonies, and those are the memories that last a lifetime... For someone who this may be their first Olympics, it's a once in a lifetime thing. You never know if you'll be able to get back to that stage.Traditional Tongan dress If this was an opening ceremony like no other, one thing remained unchanged compared to past Olympics : Pita Taufatofua made a return.Taufatofua first caught the attention of Olympic Stadium spectators in Rio five years ago when he appeared wearing traditional Tongan dress and covered in oil. Pita Taufatofua then repeated the act at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics two years later. Pita Taufatofua leads out Team Tonga during the opening ceremony. {.

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