"celebration" in the noun sense
1. celebration, jubilation
a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event
2. celebration, festivity
any joyous diversion
3. celebration, solemnization, solemnisation
the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual
"the celebration of marriage"
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