Synonyms 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, ceremony, 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, formality, ceremonial, solemnity, observance

2. ceremonynoun

   Synonyms:
   parade, pomp, show, stateliness

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1. ceremonynoun

   Synonyms:
   rite, form, ceremonial, solemnity, formality

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1. List of paraphrases for "ceremony":

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

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1. ceremony

   Synonyms:
   See White Coat ceremony
   

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1. Virginia Tech:

   There's never a ribbon cutting ceremony when you fix an underground, dirty water pipe, and that's why we typically invest more in bridges and airports and other things that can be a showcase, but the danger from these pipes is real.

2. Nancy Alvarez:

   If you see a rainbow, shout it out, point it out, stop the ceremony, do what you got to do, because that will be our 49 saying( present).

3. Chris Brown:

   The ceremony’s about to start, she’s just crying, she got over it. She started drinking a little bit, we both was drinking a little bit. We were both drinking a little bit, laughing, joking. And then we left.

4. Mukhtar Jan:

   I was at the ceremony when gunshots started. I rushed toward the door to get out of the area but suddenly my foot was hit by a bullet.

5. Jeb Bush:

   That courageous Cubans whose only crime is to speak out for freedom and democracy will be kept away from the official ceremony opening the U.S. Embassy is yet another concession to the Castros.