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

   Synonyms:
   See White Coat ceremony
   

How to use ceremony in a sentence?

1. Mindy Weiss:

   I think my favorite part [of thewedding] was the ceremony because they were so happy, they really are a very cool couple. I really enjoy their relationship.

2. Team GB pilot John Jackson:

   Receiving the medal nearly six years after the medal ceremony in 2014 was a relief, to then realize there was a typo on( them) just summed up the whole farcical situation Great Britain bobsledders had been through.

3. Li Jianlin:

   Catholics are thrilled because this is the first time since the founding of Henan province that there has been an ordination ceremony recognized by both sides.

4. Henry James:

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

5. Ben Affleck:

   Their kids took pictures during the wedding, and then I set up Ben's phone there in the chapel, and they videoed the ceremony, there was no professional photographer.

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