· a formal event performed on a special occasion; "a ceremony commemorating Pearl Harbor"
Synonym(s): ceremonial, ceremonial_occasion, observance
Hypernym(s): affair, occasion, social_occasion, function, social_function
· 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"
Hypernym(s): activity
· the proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion; "an inaugural ceremony"
Hypernym(s): activity