celebrate
/ˈsɛl.ə.bɹeɪt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.49 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To honour by rites, by ceremonies of joy and respect, or by refraining from ordinary business; to observe duly.
Transitive verb
verb
To perform or participate in, as a sacrament or solemn rite; to perform with appropriate rites.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "to celebrate the name of the Most High"
- "To celebrate the centenary next month of the opening of the first section (Forest Gate to Tilbury) of the former London, Tilbury & Southend Railway, the Stephenson Locomotive Society is organising a special rail tour over that route and other lesser-known L.T.S.R. lines."
- "Okay, that is simply not true. If that were the case, you wouldn’t need to have an Olympics. The whole reason we do this is to find out who is better than everyone else, so that we can make them stand higher than the other people who are not as good as them, because the point of the games is not to celebrate equality. It is to celebrate individuals’ excellence. So let us all settle in for two incredible weeks of celebrating the fittest, the bravest, the most beautiful and of course, the drunkest of us all. “Did somebody say ‘party’?”"
- "Instead, we retreat into our gender-segregated media spaces where the manosphere extols stoicism and the womanosphere celebrates emotional vulnerability."
- "to celebrate a birthday"
- "Hester Earle and Violet Wayne were moving about the aisle with bundles of wheat-ears and streamers of ivy, for the harvest thanksgiving was shortly to be celebrated, while the vicar stood waiting for their directions on the chancel steps with a great handful of crimson gladioli."
Etymology
From Middle English celebraten, from celebrat(e) (“celebrated”, also used as the past participle of celebraten) + -en, borrowed from Latin celebrātus, perfect passive participle of celebrō (“frequent, go to in great numbers, celebrate, honor, praise”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from celeber (“frequented, populous”). Displaced native Old English fæġnian and frēolsian.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: celebraten
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsɛl.ə.bɹeɪt/
- British English: /ˈsɛl.ɪ.bɹeɪt/
Usage
Inflected Forms
celebrates (present, singular)
celebrating (participle, present)
celebrated (participle, past)
celebrated (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
celebrated (first person, past)
celebratest (archaic, present)
celebrated (past, second person)
celebratedst (archaic, past)
celebrateth (archaic, present)
celebrated (past, singular)