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ceremony
/ˈsɛɹ.əˌmoʊ.ni/
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What does ceremony mean?
noun
- A ritual, with religious or cultural significance.
- An official gathering to celebrate, commemorate, or otherwise mark some event.
- A wedding ceremony; a marriage.
More meanings (4)
noun
- A formal socially established behaviour, often in relation to people of different ranks; formality.
- Show of magnificence, display, ostentation.
- (obsolete) An accessory or object associated with a ritual.
- (obsolete) An omen or portent.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈsɛɹ.əˌmoʊ.ni/
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Rowland had played eavesdropper to so good a purpose that he might justly have omitted the ceremony of denouncing himself to Roderick.
This ceremony--facetiously known as "hitting the pipe"--being thus concluded, the membership pipes are carefully cleaned out and replaced in the club rack.
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No ceremony was necessary, and in the busy life of the great plantations of the Black Belt it was usually dispensed with.
At the close of this ceremony the ladies were invited to partake of a feast prepared wholly of vegetables and vegetable oils.
It is purely a religious ceremony, an elaborate supplication for rain, and is designed to propitiate the water god or snake deity.