- celebration, jubilation - a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event
--1 is a kind of affair, occasion, social occasion, function, social function
Derived forms: verb celebrate1, verb celebrate2 - celebration, festivity - any joyous diversion
--2 is a kind of diversion, recreation
--2 has particulars:agon; merrymaking, conviviality, jollification; feria; festival, fete; gala, gala affair, jamboree, blowout; Ludi Saeculares, secular games; victory celebration Derived forms: verb celebrate1, verb celebrate2 - celebration, solemnization, solemnisation - the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual; "the celebration of marriage"
--3 is a kind of ritual
Derived form: verb celebrate1