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ceremonies
 
Noun ceremony has 3 senses
  1. ceremony, ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, observance - a formal event performed on a special occasion; "a ceremony commemorating Pearl Harbor"
    --1 is a kind of affair, occasion, social occasion, function, social function
    --1 has particulars:
     circumstance; funeral; wedding, wedding ceremony, nuptials, hymeneals; pageant, pageantry; dedication; opening; commemoration, memorialization, memorialisation; military ceremony; initiation, induction, installation; exercise; fire walking; formality, formalities; Maundy
  2. ceremony - 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"
    --2 is a kind of     activity
    --2 has particulars: tea ceremony, chanoyu
  3. ceremony - the proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion; "an inaugural ceremony"
    --3 is a kind of     activity
    --3 has particulars:
     groundbreaking, groundbreaking ceremony; purification, purgation; lustrum; religious ceremony, religious ritual; military ceremony; presentation
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