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Definition: Ceremony |
CeremonyNoun1. A formal event performed on a special occasion; "a ceremony commemorating Pearl Harbor". 2. 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". 3. The proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion; "an inaugural ceremony". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ceremony" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Ceremony \Cer"e*mo*ny\, noun; plural Ceremonies. [French c['e]r['e]monie, Latin caerimonia; perhaps akin to English create and from a root signifying to do or make.]. (references) |
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Literature | Ceremony When the Romans fled before Brennus, one Albinus, who was carrying his wife and children in a cart to a place of safety, overtook at Janiculum the Vestal virgins bending under their load, took them up and conveyed them to Cærë, in Etruria. Here they remained, and continued to perform their sacred rites, which were consequently called "Cære-monia." (Livy, v.) Scaliger says the word comes from cerus=sanctus. Cerus manus= Creator; and Cerco (according to Varro) is by metathesis for creo. Ceres, according to Scaliger, is also from creo. By this etymology, "Ceremony" means sacred rites, or solemn acts in honour of the Creator. The great objection to this etymology is that Cicero, Tacitus, and other classic authors spell the word Cære-monia and not Cere-monia. Master of the Ceremonies. An officer, first appointed by James I., to superintend the reception of ambassadors and strangers of rank, and to prescribe the formalities to be observed in levees and other grand public functions. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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A ceremony is an activity, infused with ritual significance, performed on a certain occasion. For example, the Japanese tea ceremony was frequently held as a ritual of hospitality at the arrival of a guest.Traditionally, a ceremony may mark a rite of passage in a personal human career, marking the significance of (for example):
Other, society-wide ceremonies may mark annual or seasonal or recurrent events like:
- birth
- initiation
- puberty
- social adulthood
- marriage
- death
- burial
Yet other ceremonies underscore the importance of irregular special occasions, such as:
- vernal equinox
- winter solstice
- weekly Sabbath day
- inauguration of an elected office-holder
- occasions in a liturgical year or "feasts" in a calendar of saints
Often ceremonies have a physical display or theatrical component: dance, a procession, the laying on of hands. But even greater importance usually attaches to a declaratory verbal pronouncement which may explain or cap the mummery, for instance:
- coronation of a monarch
- victory in battle
Both physical and verbal components of a ceremony may become part of a liturgy.
- I now pronounce you man and wife.
- Happy New Year!
- I swear to serve and defend the nation ...
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The first memorials to the victims of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack began to take shape online, as hundreds of webmasters posted their own thoughts, links to the Red Cross and other rescue agencies, photos and eyewitness accounts. Numerous online Sept. 11 memorials began appearing a few hours after the attacks, although many of these memorials were only temporary. (For an assessment of the response of webloggers to the attacks, see When blogging came of age .)The Tribute in Light was the first major physical memorial at the World Trade Center site. A permanent memorial at the World Trade Center site is planned, as part of the design by Studio Daniel Libeskind. The plans call for preservation of much of the towers' foundational "bathtub", with glass towers wending around to a 1776-foot high spire.
The first anniversary of the attack brought numerous memorials and services.
81 streets in New York City, mostly in Staten Island, were renamed after victims.
Vigils and services
In New York City, candlelight vigils were held across the city on Wednesday night [September 12] and Friday night [September 14] at 7:00 PM. (A related email hoax spread, encouraging people to "go outside at 7pm so NASA can take a photo". See Misinformation and rumors.)Several thousand citizens march in a candlelight procession through the Adams Morgan district, through Dupont Circle, past dozens of embassies and onto the National Mall, where they join additional thousands of their fellow citizens holding vigil over The Pentagon, just across the Potomac River.
In England, in a break with the long-standing usual procedures at Buckingham Palace, the Queen ordered the Changing of the Guard to be paused for a two minute silence on September 13th, followed by the playing of the American national anthem. A memorial service was held in St. Paul's cathedral, London, attended by the Queen and politicians on the 14th September. A three minute silence at 11 o'clock was held throughout Europe on the 14th. Rev. Billy Graham led a service at Washington National Cathedral, with George W. Bush, the former presidents other than Reagan, Congressional leaders, other top officials in attendance. George W. Bush spoke, beginning with the memorable phrase We are here in the middle hour of our grief.
Vigils and memorial services continued to be held in the following days. On Sunday the families of the victims of the crash of United Airlines flight 93 gathered at the crash site in Pennsylvania for a private ceremony, then joined in a service attended by governor Tom Ridge and First Lady Laura Bush.
Church services are held across the United States and much of the world. Here is [one service held September 16].
On October 4, a memorial Mass is held before 3 PM EDT in St. Patrick's Cathedral for NYFD captain Terence Hatton; Giuliani and Pataki are in attendance. Hatton's wife was Rudy Giuliani's executive assistant, Beth Patrone. She discovered that she was pregnant on September 13th. A service is held after 3 PM EDT in Madison Square Garden for the 74 employees of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey who are missing and presumed dead.
St. Patricks CathedralAt 11 AM: Blessing of the Animals
A memorial is constructed and then set ablaze at the Playa del Fuego event on the October 19-21 weekend [1]
- Special service dedicated to the World Trade Center search and rescue teams at the Church of the Resurrection, 119 E. 74th St., free (212.879.4320). Service begins at 11; blessing is at 12:30 PM.
At noon on November 29, a national memorial service was held at Westminster Abbey in London, attended by relatives of the British dead, and broadcast on UK television and radio.
On May 28, the last steel beam standing at the site was cut down and placed on a flatbed truck in a quiet ceremony.
Physical memorials
Impromptu memorials are put up at Washington Square, with hundreds of candles and flowers, and Union Square, where people write messages on large rolls of paper taped to the ground amidst candles, including a 6-foot high concrete candle. A mural is spray-painted on a wall in the Lower East Side. In the coming days the memorials continue to grow, especially at Union Square Park, where thousands come to congregate, grieve, and celebrate--the statue George Washington in Union Square overtaken as a shrine for peace, memory and the United States, thousands of candles are added, a metal sculpture of the American flag and 2500 roses planted in the shape of the World Trade Center towers.
The Stars and Stripes appear on front stoops, flagpoles, cars, clothing, and on public buildings across the country.
A statue in honor of fallen firefighters, commissioned in 2000 by the Firefighters Association of Missouri, was in New York City en route to Missouri at the time of the attack. It was since donated to New York City in honor of the hundreds of firefighters who lost their lives in the collapse of the World Trade Center.
On October 4, Reverend Brian Jordan, a Franciscan priest, blessed two beams at the crash site which had formed a cross spontaneously, and then had been welded together by ironworkers.
On March 11, the damaged Sphere sculpture formerly in the World Trade Center was dedicated by the city as a temporary memorial in Battery Park City.
Beginning March 11, the Tribute in Light project, 88 searchlights placed next to the site of the World Trade Center created two vertical columns of light, lasting until April 14.
Performances and benefits
On Thursday, September 20, the New York Philharmonic performed a memorial concert of the Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem in Avery Fisher Hall. The concert was led off by the national anthem, and on the stage was a flag which appeared on stage during all Philharmonic World War II concerts. All proceeds went to disaster relief. At the request of the Philharmonic director, all applause was held, and the audience filed out in silence.
On Friday, September 21, America: A Tribute to Heroes
On Tuesday, October 2, beginning at 8 PM EDT: Come Together: A Night of John Lennon's Words and Music
- A two-hour live telethon entitled "", with musical performances and spoken tributes by top American performers, was simultaneously broadcast on nearly every single network. Celebrities such as Al Pacino, George Clooney and Jack Nicholson manned the phones.
On Thursday, October 4, at 9 PM EDT: ART Benefit for Sept. 11 Fund
- A tribute to John Lennon that became a concert of prayer and healing for New York City to benefit the relief efforts, hosted by Kevin Spacey and featuring Dave Matthews, Moby, Stone Temple Pilots, Nelly Furtado, Shelby Lynne, Alanis Morissette, Cyndi Lauper, The Isley Brothers, Lou Reed, Marc Anthony, Natalie Merchant, Yolanda Adams, Sean Lennon and Yoko Ono, was held at Radio City Music Hall and simultaneously broadcast live on the TNT and WB networks. It had been scheduled before the attack to be taped September 20 and broadcast on October 9 to promote a non-violent world.
On Saturday, October 6, at 6 PM EDT: And the Sun Went Down
- Silent auction of photography, mixed media, painting and sculpture to benefit the victims, at View Bar, 232 8th Ave., free (212.929.2243).
On Sunday, October 7: AMF National Bowl-a-thon
- Luvchild Theatre Ensemble performs a work in progress based on stories of people directly affected by the events of Sept. 11. All proceeds benefit victims and families, at New York Comedy Club, 241 E. 24th St., $10 plus two drink minimum (212.330.9314).
On Monday, October 8: New York City Columbus Day Parade
- National effort to raise $3 million for the Twin Towers Fund. In New York City at 3 PM: Chelsea Piers, $200 per lane. [1]
At 3 p.m. EDT:
- The annual Columbus Day parade is dedicated to victims and rescue and relief workers. The NYPD and FDNY do not march in the parade as they usually do, but send a single fire truck instead, in somber memory.
On Monday, October 8 and October 15, from 11-8: Haircut for Life
- Free Brooklyn Philharmonic concert conducted by Robert Spano at the Brooklyn Academy of Music with music from American composers, including George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, and Aaron Copland. The concert is rebroadcast on WNYC at 8 p.m.
On Tuesday, October 9: Benefit for WTC Disaster Fund: Celebration of John Lennon's Birthday
- Roberto Novo and his stylists cut hair to benefit WTC victims at the Roberto Novo Salon, 192 8th Ave., $25 minimum (212.929.1652).
On October 17, Marvel Comics and other members of the comic industry release a tribute book, primarily with drawings of firefighters and police officers, with proceeds going to the victims. Other charity books are also in production.
- The East Village Antifolk scene play John Lennon's and their own songs to raise money. Performances from The Voyces, Joie DBG, Amos, Bionic Finger, Laura Fay, Barry Bliss, Tony Hightower, Linda Draper, Pat Cisarano, Lach, Testosterone Kills, Kenny Davidsen, Jude Kastle, Bree Sharp, Erica Smith, Fenton Lawless, Grey Revell, at the Sidewalk Cafe, 94 Ave. A, two-drink minimum (212-473-7373).
Memorial efforts
Several reporters for The New York Times, including Metro reporter Wendell Jameson, are writing 150-word entries for each of the World Trade Center victims, which highlight brief anecdotes about their lives. They expect the effort to take about 10 months.See also
In Memoriam to add a memorial to an individual victim
Personal Experiences to add a general memorial or tribute by describing your experienceSeptember 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack - Full Timeline
In Memoriam - Casualties - Missing Persons - Survivors- Personal experiencesDonations - Assistance
External links
- America Survives
- Attack on America: The Victims' Voice
- From 88 Searchlights, an Ethereal Tribute, The New York Times, March 4, 2002
- THE VICTIMS: A Homegrown Memorial Brings Strangers Together
- Statue to Fallen Firefighters to Make Its Home in New York, New York Times, 9/19/2001
- THE PENNSYLVANIA CRASH: 44 Victims Are Remembered, and Lauded, New York Times, 9/18/2001
- NY Times--THE VIGILS: Surrounded by Grief, People Around the World Pause and Turn to Prayer Information to be incorporated
- Pilgrims Flock to Crash Site, The New York Times, September 9, 2002
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Synonyms: CeremonySynonyms: ceremonial (n), ceremonial occasion (n), observance (n). (additional references) |
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Celebration | Noun: celebration, solemnization, jubilee, commemoration, ovation, paean, triumph, jubilation, ceremony (rite); holiday, fiesta, zarabanda, revelry, feast (amusement); china anniversary, diamond anniversary, golden anniversary, silver anniversary, tin anniversary, china jubilee, diamond jubilee, golden jubilee, silver jubilee, tin jubilee, china wedding, diamond wedding, golden wedding, silver wedding, tin wedding. |
Conformity | Be regular; Adjective: move in a groove; follow observe the rules, go by the rules, bend to the rules,obey the rules, obey the precedents; comply with, tally with, chime in with, fall in with; be guided by, be regulated by; fall into a custom,fall into a usage; follow the fashion, follow the crowd, pass muster, do as others do, hurler avec les loups; stand on ceremony; when in Rome do as the Romans do; go with the stream, go with the flow, swim with the stream, swim with the current, swim with the tide, blow with the wind; stick to the beaten track; (habit); keep one in countenance. |
Modesty | Adverb: humbly; Adjective: quietly, privately; without ceremony, without beat of drum; sans fa_on. |
Ostentation | Ceremony, ceremonial; ritual; form, formality; etiquette; puncto, punctilio, punctiliousness; starched stateliness, stateliness. |
Respect | Keep one's distance, make room, observe due decorum, stand upon ceremony. |
Rite | Noun: rite; ceremony, ritual, liturgy, ceremonial; ordinance, observance, function, duty; form, formulary; solemnity, sacrament; incantation; (spell); service, psalmody; (worship). |
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Crosswords: Ceremony |
| English words defined with "ceremony": marriage ceremony, military ceremony ♦ religious ceremony ♦ wedding ceremony. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ceremony": Abrupt, attack on freedom of faith and freedom of worship ♦ BATH, Bell, Book, and Candle, Breaking a Stick, BUMPING ♦ Cap of Time, Cemetery, Clavie, Coronation ♦ Disobey, disturbing the peace of the dead, DUEL ♦ Funerary objects ♦ IMPOSITION, Inaugurate, INTRODUCTION ♦ KISS ♦ Marriage, Marriage Knot, Masaniello ♦ Nail fixed in the Temple ♦ Presentable ♦ Raul, rite, Rough Music, RUSSIA ♦ sacrament ♦ Wedding. (references) |
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Screenplays | Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony! (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.) I know you've never performed a Hindu ceremony before (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Why, I thought it was customary to kiss the bride after the ceremony. (Cab Waiting; writing credit: E.K. Nadel; Paul Girard Smith) The ceremony of innocence is drowned (Millennium; writing credit: Eric Knight) Something without which no ribbon-cutting ceremony could proceed: the ceremonial oversized scissors (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Ceremony of Innocence (1972) Secret Ceremony (1968) The Ceremony (1963) Coronation Ceremony and Durbar (1903) The Royal Procession to the Church Before the Coronation Ceremony (1898) | |
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 | 1. Original building on completion, 1940. Then called McArdle Memorial Laboratory for Cancer Research. 2. Dedication ceremony in 1964 of "new" McArdle Laboratory. From left: Melvin Laird, Wisconsin congressman; Harold P. Rusch, McArdle director; Kenneth Endicott, NCI director, and Robert Clodius, University of Wisconsin Vice President. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Dr. LeRoy Burney speaking at CDC Dedication Ceremony, September 8, 1960. Credit: CDC. |
 | CDC Dedicatin Ceremony, September 8, 1960. Credit: CDC. |  | Spacelab Arrival Ceremony at Kennedy Space Center. Credit: NASA. |
 | STS-26 Welcome Home Ceremony. Credit: NASA. |  | Religious and patriotic ceremony commemorating the 4th of July. F&WS 10,074. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Traditional music to welcome the salmon was played at the dedication ceremony. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | The awards ceremony at the dedication event. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Christening ceremony of the Coast and Geodetic Survey Ships FAIRWEATHER and RAINIER. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Pollywog following the time-honored tradition of "kissing the baby" during Equator crossing ceremony. After passing all the necessary tests, the pollywog will become a bona fide Shellback and able to initiate pollywogs during future Equator crossing ceremonies. On board the NOAA Ship DAVID STARR JORDAN. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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| "We're done!" by KATI GARNER Commentary: "At the end of graduation ceremony, students jubilantly throw hats into air." | "Wedding chain 1" by Thomas Hamlyn-Harris Commentary: "Nanjing (China). As part of a wedding ceremony couples padlock two hearts together on a chain. On the hearts there is an image of a Pheonix (female) and Dragon (male). I think the brand name of the padlocks, HOUSE, is a beautiful touch." |
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 | Wedding; church; groom; bride; bells; bells; bridal; espousal; marriage; marriage ceremony; matrimony; nuptial rite; nuptials; spousal; union; wedlock. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Bulwer | To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment. |
Henry James | Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. |
Herbert Spencer | Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. |
Lord Chesterfield | Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners. |
Steele | Ceremony is the invention of wise men to keep fools at a distance; as good breeding is an expedient to make fools and wise men equals. |
William Shakespeare | When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar] |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | It was an awkward ceremony at any time to be receiving wedding visits, and a man had need be all grace to acquit himself well through it. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | All that is the ceremony of dying |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Stewards in evening dress, old Belvedereans, loitered in groups about the entrance to the theatre and ushered in the visitors with ceremony. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Before we took shipping, I was often asked by some of the crew whether I had performed the ceremony above mentioned |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | We should never stand upon ceremony with sincerity |
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Civil Liberties | Cuba | Police only allowed immediate family members to enter the cemetery for the burial ceremony. (references) |
Morocco | Prime Minister Youssoufi and numerous other ministers attended the ceremony, which was held in Rabat's Catholic cathedral. (references) | |
Djibouti | Muslims are required to marry in a religious ceremony, and non-Muslim men may marry a Muslim woman only after converting to Islam. (references) | |
Economic History | Ecuador | On October 26, 1998, at a ceremony in Brasilia, Presidents Fujimori and Mahuad and their foreign ministers signed a comprehensive settlement. (references) |
Mali | The peace agreement was celebrated in 1996 in Timbuktu during an official and highly publicized ceremony called Flamme de la Paix--peace flame. (references) | |
North Korea | On September 18, R.O.K. President Kim Dae-jung presided over a groundbreaking ceremony for the planned re-linking of the Seoul-Sinuiju railway line, which crosses through the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). (references) | |
Human Rights | Indonesia | Police detained 22 persons returning from a traditional ceremony in March and killed six of them in connection with the same incident. (references) |
Nepal | On November 30, five citizens attending a religious ceremony in Rolpa District reportedly were killed by gunshots fired from an RNA-manned helicopter. (references) | |
Ghana | At a subsequent graduation ceremony for new soldiers, an army official warned the soldiers not to let themselves be hired to resolve personal disputes. (references) | |
Minorities | Poland | In July the President presided over a ceremony commemorating the 1941 killing of several hundred Jews in the town of Jedwabne. (references) |
Ghana | In 1999 after 14 years of animosity, the Bimobas and the Konkombas of the East Mamprusi District of the Northern Region held a pacification and reconciliation ceremony. (references) | |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | On May 7, a riot broke out in Banja Luka on the occasion of a similar cornerstone laying ceremony for the reconstruction of the destroyed Ferhadija Central Mosque; approximately 200 of the estimated 2,000 to 5,000 protesters broke through police lines and violently attacked participants, including elderly persons, government officials, and representatives of the international community. (references) | |
Political Economy | Burkina Faso | President Compaore declared March 30 a "National Day of Pardon" and during a ceremony to commemorate the day, he apologized for past government crimes, promised to compensate victims and families of victims for "economic and blood crimes," and vowed that the Government never again would commit such offenses. (references) |
Travel | Australia | Business cards are exchanged for information purposes, but without any special ceremony. (references) |
Women | Nepal | Shamans or other local authority figures sometimes publicly beat and physically abuse suspected witches as part of an exorcism ceremony. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DISOBEY, v.t. To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command. His right to govern me is clear as day, My duty manifest to disobey; And if that fit observance e'er I shut May I and duty be alike undone. Israfel Brown |
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Angela Ricci | We got married in Clark County, Nevada. Mesquite, Nevada is where we actually had our ceremony. But it's through Clark County, Nevada. |
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Grover Cleveland | 1885-1889; 1893-1897 | This impressive ceremony adds little to the solemn sense of responsibility with which I contemplate the duty I owe to all the people of the land. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | We are summoned by this honored and historic ceremony to witness more than the act of one citizen swearing his oath of service, in the presence of God. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Now, the sights and sounds of this ceremony are broadcast instantaneously to billions around the world. |
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| "Ceremony" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.94% of the time. "Ceremony" is used about 1,739 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.94% | 1,738 | 4,838 |
| Noun (common) | 0.06% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,739 | N/A |
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Expressions using "ceremony": annual ceremony ♦ closing ceremony ♦ commencement ceremony ♦ eulogistic ceremony ♦ funeral ceremony ♦ graduation ceremony ♦ groundbreaking ceremony ♦ inaugural ceremony ♦ marriage ceremony ♦ military ceremony ♦ not to stand on ceremony ♦ opening ceremony ♦ presentation ceremony ♦ religious ceremony ♦ stand on ceremony ♦ stand upon ceremony ♦ stickler for ceremony ♦ tea ceremony ♦ unveiling ceremony ♦ victory ceremony ♦ wedding ceremony ♦ without ceremony ♦ without further ceremony. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "ceremony": awards-ceremony, circumcision-ceremony, tea-ceremony. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "ceremony"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ceremoni (ceremonial, circumstance, exercises, function, proceedings, rite), kremtim (celebration, festivity, fete), etiketë e tepruar. (various references) | |
Arabic | مراسم, قواعد السلوك (discipline), تشريفات, سلوكيات, طقس (ceremonial, climate, rite, weather), شدة التمسك بالشكليات. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | церемонност, церемония (exercises, function, production, rite), обред (ceremonial, exercise, observance, office, ordinance, rite, ritual), парадност (showiness, window dressing). (various references) | |
Chinese | 典禮 (celebration), 仪式 (Ceremonies), 儀式 , 儀 (apparatus, appearance, present, rites). (various references) | |
Czech | ceremonie (performance, rigmarole), slavnost (celebration, festival, fete, fiesta, function, gala, solemnization), obřadnost (solemnity), obřad (ceremonial, observance, ordinance, rite, ritual). (various references) | |
Danish | ceremoni. (various references) | |
Dutch | plechtigheid (solemnity), ceremonie. (various references) | |
Esperanto | ceremonio, ceremonieco (solemnity), soleno, soleneco (solemnity), solenaĵo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | langskel. (various references) | |
Farsi | مراسم (Rite), تشریفات (Ceremonial, Protocol, Ritual, Service, Starch), جشن (Carnival, Celebration, Jubilation, Jubilee). (various references) | |
Finnish | toimitus (delivery, dispatch, editorial office, editorial staff, execution, function, performing), kursailu. (various references) | |
French | cérémonie. (various references) | |
Frisian | seremoanje. (various references) | |
German | Zeremonie (rite, ritual), Feierlichkeit (ceremoniousness, festiveness, gravity, solemnity, solemnness), feier (celebration, festival, party, reception). (various references) | |
Greek | εθιμοτυπία (etiquette, protocol), τελετή (celebration, ceremonial, rite, state). (various references) | |
Hebrew | טקס (etiquette, observance, protocol). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ünnepély (ceremonial, exercises, festival, solemnity), szertartás (ceremonial, mummery, observance, ordinance, rite, ritual, service). (various references) | |
Indonesian | upacara (ceremonial, rite). (various references) | |
Irish | searmanas, deasghnÚth. (various references) | |
Italian | complimento (compliment, congratulations), cerimonia (ceremonial act, proceedings), cerimònia, formalità (formality). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 儀式 (rite, ritual, service), 儀典 (rite, ritual, service). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぎしき (rite, ritual, service), ぎてん (doubtful point, rite, ritual, service), ぎ (affair, be suspicious of, case, connection, deception, deed, distrust, doubt, false, falsehood, favor, friendly relations, friendship, goodwill, honour, imitation, intimacy, justice, kindness, lie, matter, morality, relation, righteousness, rule, skill), しきほう (manners, quarterly), しきてん (rites), しき (beginning period, command, containers etc. made of paper, determination, direction, equation, formula, four seasons, initial term, morale, paper articles, private records or documents, time of death), セレモニー , てんれい (courtesy, etiquette, graceful, liturgy, seal style and ancient square style), てん (biography, celebration, comment, communication, cultivated rice field, dot, establishment, heaven, law code, legend, life, mark, point, shop, sky, spot, store, tradition), えいてん (exercises, honours, promotion). (various references) | |
Korean | 식 (Ceremonies, ECLIPSE). (various references) | |
Manx | jesh-chliaghtey (ceremonial). (various references) | |
Papiamen | seremonia. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eremonycay.(various references) | |
Polish | uroczystość. (various references) | |
Portuguese | cerimônia (formality, function, rite, solemnity, solemnization, state). (various references) | |
Romanian | cinste (appreciation, chastity, consideration, credit, crown, esteem, fairness, faith, faithfulness, fame, Favor, favour, fealty, gift, glory, honesty, honor, honour, integrity, morality, probity, repute, respect, straight, treat, truth, uprightness, virtue), ceremonie (ceremonial, ceremoniousness, circumstance, form, formality, observance, rite, ritual, solemnity, state), celebrare (celebration, solemnity), solemnitate (awfulness, solemnity), ritual (ceremonial, form, formulary, observance, ordinance, ordinary, rite, ritual), formalitate (etiquette, formality), fandosealã (affectation, bumptiousness, finicalness, flirtation, fuss, haughtiness, jazz, to-do), etichetã (courtesy, decorum, docket, etiquette, label, stamp, tag, ticket). (various references) | |
Russian | церемония. (various references) | |
Scottish | siabhas (idle ceremony), pòs (marry, perform the marriage ceremony). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ceremonija (encaenia, exercises), svečanost (celebration, exercise, festivity, fete, gala, powwow, seriousness, solemnity), obred (ceremonial, ordinance, rite, ritual). (various references) | |
Spanish | ceremonia (do, formality, ritual). (various references) | |
Swedish | ceremoni (function, observance, rite), högtidlighet (festival, festivity, function, solemnity). (various references) | |
Thai | พฤติกรรมที่เป็นทางการ, พิธีการ (rite), ความเป็นทางการ, ความมีระเบียบแบบแผน. (various references) | |
Turkish | tören (celebration, ceremonial, exercise, formality, investiture, solemnity, state). (various references) | |
Turkmen | dabara (celebration). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | урочистість (gravity, solemnity, sonority), ритуал (agendum, ceremonial, observance, practice, ritual, sacramental), церемонія (rite), церемоніал (ceremonial), формальності, обряд (ceremonial, observance, ordinance, rite), етикет (decorum, etiquette). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nghi thức (form, formality, rite), nghi lễ sự khách sáo. (various references) | |
Welsh | seremoni, defod (custom, rite). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | e-da. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | caerimonia, caerimoniae, caerimonias, caerimoniis, cæremonia, cærimonia, obsequi, obsequiis, obsequio, obsequium, ritu, ritum, ritus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Ceremony" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Caedmon, carnmoni, celemony, ceramony, ceremeny, ceremoney, ceremonie, cerimony, cermony, Cerrejon, criminy, crimony, heremony, Syremont. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ceremony" (pronounced se"rumō'nē) |
| 6 | -r u m ō' n ē | acrimony, matrimony, patrimony. |
| 5 | -u m ō' n ē | alimony, palimony, parsimony, sanctimony, testimony. |
| 3 | -ō' n ē | telephony. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-m-n-o-r-y" | |
-1 letter: moneyer. | |
-2 letters: cymene, encore, moreen, yeomen. | |
-3 letters: comer, coney, corny, coyer, creme, crone, crony, emery, enemy, enorm, mercy, money, onery, recon. | |
-4 letters: cere, cero, come, cone, cony, core, corm, corn, cory, cyme, eery, erne, eyen, eyer, eyne, eyre, meno, mere, mony, more, morn, neem, nome, norm, omen, omer, once, oyer, yore. | |
-5 letters: cee, con, cor. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-m-n-o-r-y" | |
+2 letters: pycnometer. | |
+3 letters: clergywomen, embryogenic, nephrectomy, pycnometers. | |
+4 letters: ceremonially, cytomembrane, nonemergency. | |
+5 letters: adrenalectomy, ceremoniously, complementary, countermelody, cytomembranes, dysmenorrheic, embryogenetic, laryngectomee, monoglyceride, postemergency, synchromeshes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Quotations: Speeches 15. Usage Frequency 16. Expressions | 17. Expressions: Internet 18. Translations: Modern 19. Translations: Ancient 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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