family celebrant
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.39 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who conducts weddings, civil unions, naming ceremonies, and other celebrations of life events, but who is not a government or church official.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see family, celebrant.
Example Sentences
- "Some families are taking this further and are finding their own family spokespersons or family celebrants."
- "On May 29, they are to have a nonbinding cultural ceremony at Luttrellstown Castle, an event space in Dublin, where Simone Walsh, a civil family celebrant, is to lead the couple in a Celtic handfasting ceremony in which they bind their hands together with a ribbon."
- "She is also a family celebrant and conducts baby naming ceremonies."
- "Family celebrants believe that familes are too good for justice. While justice negotiates between competing self-interests, family members share a single interest, the good of the family and each of its members."
- "Cesare Borgia followed his father, the Pope, up the aisle; in their wake were Cesare's mother, Vanozza, his sister, Lucrezia, and his brothers, Juan and Jofre. Behind them were other family celebrants."