Synonyms:
ceremony, ceremonial, ceremonial_occasion, observance
Meaning: a formal event performed on a special occasion; "a ceremony commemorating Pearl Harbor"
Synonyms:
ceremony
Meaning: 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"
Synonyms:
ceremony
Meaning: the proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion; "an inaugural ceremony"
Usage examples
Job, however, did not stand upon ceremony.
We must enter the castle with more ceremony.
Put down your hat, Mr. Germaine. No ceremony!"
Fyodor Pavlovitch himself was present at the whole ceremony.
One does not stand on ceremony when a man's neck is at stake.
"I guess we'll have to be going," Park said with some ceremony.
The ceremony of burial was performed with all solemnity and pathos.
Genji was also directed by special order to take part in the ceremony.
Those fears were but too well founded, for now the dread ceremony began.
The youth had watched, spellbound, this ceremony at the place of meeting.