celebrant
/ˈsɛlɪbɹənt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.39 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who officiates at a religious ceremony, especially a marriage or the Eucharist.
noun
A person who conducts formal ceremonies in the community, particularly weddings, baby namings, renewals of wedding vows and funerals.
Australian usage; New Zealand usage
noun
A person who is celebrating something.
Example Sentences
- "The very reverend celebrant was then conducted to the platform of the altar, and the postulant and her attendants having genuflected, the ceremony of reception began with the preparatory prayers and responseries."
- "The most appropriate mode of ordering the holy vessels at this part of the service, previously to preparing them for the communion, is for the celebrant to place both the patten and the chalice in the middle of the altar, in a line with himself, the chalice behind and the patten in front; for they are presented before God as one Eucharist."
- "Through it, through what takes place, the celebrants try to obtain a result, to influence the course of the hoped for or dreaded events that either depend on the current dispositions of a divinity or obey gestures or words formerly taught or exercised by a divinity or an august ancestor."
- "These are celebrants who marry people at registry offices."
- "Church and state are completely separate but all clergy can be licensed as civil celebrants for legal purposes."
- "When we first began as celebrants back in 1973, we had no poetry in our heads at all."
Etymology
From French célébrant, from Latin celebrāns, present participle of celebrō, equivalent to celebrate + -ant.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: célébrant, celebrāns
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Religion.