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Synonyms for ceremony
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English Synonyms and Antonyms4.7 / 23 votes

  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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. ceremony

    Synonyms:
    display, pageant, solemnity, rite, formality

Princeton's WordNet2.0 / 4 votes

  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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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. ceremonynoun

    Synonyms:
    rite, form, formality, ceremonial, solemnity, observance

  2. ceremonynoun

    Synonyms:
    parade, pomp, show, stateliness

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  1. ceremonynoun

    Synonyms:
    rite, form, ceremonial, solemnity, formality

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "ceremony":

    ceremonies, ceremonial, event, lai, celebration, ritual, rite, ado

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD1.0 / 3 votes

  1. ceremony

    Synonyms:
    See White Coat ceremony

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How to use ceremony in a sentence?

  1. Shinzo Abe:

    To be honest, when [Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee head Yoshiro] Mori first came to me with the idea [of appearing at the closing ceremony dressed as Super Mario], I didn’t like it [laughs], ‘Is it really OK for a prime minister to dress up like Mario?’ I asked. As much as possible, I wanted to avoid any politicizing of the Olympics, and it’s a 20-hour flight to Rio.

  2. Ben Rhodes:

    It took us by some surprise, there's a great affinity between the United States and India and our people, but there's also a history that is complicated and that would have made it seem highly unlikely that a U.S. president would be sitting with India's leaders at their Republic Day ceremony.

  3. Dharmender Kumar Meena:

    There was a foundation-laying ceremony of a new Hindu temple and following the event the' prasad' was distributed. People started vomiting shortly after.

  4. Qutaiba Idlbi:

    If it's in a year or two when we have our ceremony, it's fine, i'm just happy that I'm done with this and to continue moving forward.

  5. Sifan Hassan:

    I ’m so happy and I cried during the medal ceremony, i actually realised that I ’m done, the Games are over.


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