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celebrate English

Meaning celebrate meaning

What does celebrate mean?
Definitions in simple English

celebrate Verb

— If you celebrate something, you do something special to show that you are happy about it. The town celebrates its 200th anniversary this Saturday by launching 20,000 balloons. Some American homes are treeless during Christmas as these families celebrate other holidays. Fans poured into the streets to celebrate after their team's victory. — When you celebrate something, you perform or participate in it, usually a sacrament or solemn rite. The Christians gathered together to celebrate a mass.

celebrate

— verb (= observe, keep) behave as expected during of holidays or rites Keep the commandments celebrate Christmas Observe Yom Kippur — verb (= fete) have a celebration They were feting the patriarch of the family After the exam, the students were celebrating — verb (= lionize, lionise) assign great social importance to The film director was celebrated all over Hollywood The tenor was lionized in Vienna

Synonyms celebrate synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as celebrate?

celebrate English » English

praise extol congratulate observe keep glorify commemorate rejoice party honor remember memorialize honour feast exult proclaim make merry make famous lionize emblazon commend applaud admire acclaim solemnize ritualize ritualise revel perform a ceremony perform memorize memorise memorialise lionise laud jubilate joy fete exalt eulogize carry on bless adorn worship wine and dine while away welcome troll tout toasts

Topics celebrate topics

What do people use celebrate to talk about?
Social behavior Social activity Social event

Celebrate

Conjugation celebrate conjugation

How do you conjugate celebrate?

celebrate · verb

Examples celebrate examples

How do I use celebrate in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Why would I celebrate?
Tom refuses to celebrate anything.
I won't celebrate anything.
There is nothing to celebrate.
It was a party to celebrate her birthday.
On February 14 Americans celebrate St. Valentine's Day.
The contract is in the bag, so let's go out and celebrate.
How did you celebrate your birthday?
Young and old in Japan celebrate New Year's Day.
It is said that Japanese people don't celebrate Christmas the way Americans do.
This is a time of year when people get together with family and friends to observe Passover and to celebrate Easter.
On February 14th, Americans celebrate Valentine's Day.
Today, we celebrate Africa day.
Celebrate! Tomorrow we may die!
Don't you want all your friends to come to your party and celebrate with you?
Do we have something to celebrate?
Now let's celebrate.
Quite a few people have been invited to celebrate the couple's anniversary.
We celebrate Christmas every year.
Villagers were going to celebrate the wine festival.
In China, they celebrate New Year by the lunar calendar.
Celebrate in style!
We will celebrate Eid ul-Fitr tomorrow.
We celebrate November 28 as Tatoeba day because it is the day when Turkish, Esperanto and Greek were added.
We'll have to celebrate the winter solstice.
I don't want to celebrate my birthday.
Let's celebrate!

Movie subtitles

We are here to celebrate love, and we're gonna do that at a ten, am I right?
We should celebrate tonight.
How about I buy you a beer to celebrate, huh?
He comes home, drinks some champagne to celebrate something.
They drink champagne to celebrate progress.
Why don't you drive me home and we'll celebrate?
Dear friend, We know that tomorrow you celebrate your wedding to the beautiful Ione.
So we invite you to dinner and we shall celebrate your last day of freedom.
Egyptians celebrate their new King.
Tomorrow we will celebrate the summer solstice in a very special way.
If Kriemhild gives her consent, o hero, we shall celebrate a double wedding here today.
Tomorrow we will celebrate our engagement together. very high up there.
The ski racers go to the cottage, to celebrate the day's events.
Assured of their imminent victory, they begin to celebrate.
That's something to celebrate about.
We should celebrate this with a bottle of wine.
We're just having a few drinks to celebrate my daughter's birthday.
We'll go somewhere and celebrate the New Year.
We're going to celebrate!
And that's what I'm gonna do too! Celebrate. Alone!
To celebrate my shooting down my second plane.
Each time you Westerners celebrate your birthday, you build another fence around your minds.
What event do we celebrate today?
We gotta celebrate.
We'll go out and celebrate.
We'll celebrate.
Oh, fine! Then we both have a reason to celebrate.
I'm also here to celebrate your birthday with you.
We must celebrate it, because we have suffered for so long!
I think we ought to celebrate.
All the neighbors from miles around come to celebrate our wedding.
To perpetuate such scoundrels is to celebrate their crimes.
Let's take David and sneak out. We'll go somewhere and celebrate the New Year.
WILL YOU CELEBRATE WATERLOO, MUM?
Don't worry, we'll celebrate.
Let me take you there tonight, uh, both of you, to celebrate your first night in Havana.

News and current affairs

Some companies even seem to celebrate the melting of the polar ice cap, because it will reduce the cost of extracting the oil that lies beneath the Arctic Ocean.
Obama must still fulfill his promises to celebrate with Palestinians their full membership of the UN this fall and to draw down its forces in Afghanistan.
But it is too early to celebrate.
But Americans are in no mood to celebrate.
MOSCOW: Vladimir Putin has more to celebrate than his election as Russia's president in his own right.
The heads of state of all three countries have been invited to participate in the parades to be held in Moscow to celebrate the Red Army's victory over Nazi Germany.
Thus, a former captive nation is now being invited to celebrate its captivity.
Physicists and mathematicians nonetheless have reason to celebrate.
When Pakistan's President, Pervez Musharraf traveled to Myanmar to celebrate his country's new relationship with his fellow generals, India's Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh soon followed.
As the European Union prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome later this month, the EU is widely perceived to be on its knees.
There are many reasons to celebrate the current democratic wave.
And the Republicans gathered in Tampa to celebrate the rule - to say that the America that Tocqueville saw no longer exists: Americans no longer believe that the wealth of the rich rests on the prosperity of the rest.
So long as we celebrate Cervantes, however, perhaps all is not lost.
But we may not be able to celebrate.
The two governments will certainly use Hu's visit to celebrate the anniversary with new programs designed to enhance bilateral understanding and friendship.
The French seemed to be in the mood to celebrate.

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