celebrate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English celebraten, from celebrat(e) (“celebrated”, also used as the past participle of celebraten) + -en, borrowed from Latin celebrātus, perfect passive participle of celebrō (“frequent, go to in great numbers, celebrate, honor, praise”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from celeber (“frequented, populous”). Displaced native Old English fæġnian.
Base: celebrat
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: celebrates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: celebrating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: celebrated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: celebrated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: celebrate
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: celebrate
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: celebrated
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: celebrate
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: celebratest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: celebrated
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: celebratedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: celebrates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: celebrateth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: celebrated
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: celebrate
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: celebrated
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: celebrate
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: celebrated
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: celebrate
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: celebrating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: celebrated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To extol or honour in a solemn manner.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to celebrate the name of the Most High
To celebrate the centenary next month of the opening of the first section (Forest Gate to Tilbury) of the former London, Tilbury & Southend Railway, the Stephenson Locomotive Society is organising a special rail tour over that route and other lesser-known L.T.S.R. lines.
Okay, that is simply not true. If that were the case, you wouldn’t need to have an Olympics. The whole reason we do this is to find out who is better than everyone else, so that we can make them stand higher than the other people who are not as good as them, because the point of the games is not to celebrate equality. It is to celebrate individuals’ excellence. So let us all settle in for two incredible weeks of celebrating the fittest, the bravest, the most beautiful and of course, the drunkest of us all. “Did somebody say ‘party’?”
Instead, we retreat into our gender-segregated media spaces where the manosphere extols stoicism and the womanosphere celebrates emotional vulnerability.
gloss: To honour by rites, by ceremonies of joy and respect, or by refraining from ordinary business; to observe duly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to celebrate a birthday
Hester Earle and Violet Wayne were moving about the aisle with bundles of wheat-ears and streamers of ivy, for the harvest thanksgiving was shortly to be celebrated, while the vicar stood waiting for their directions on the chancel steps with a great handful of crimson gladioli.
gloss: To engage in joyful activity in appreciation of an event.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: I was promoted today at work—let’s celebrate!
As Di Matteo celebrated and captain John Terry raised the trophy for the fourth time, the Italian increased his claims to become the permanent successor to Andre Villas-Boas by landing a trophy.
gloss: To perform or participate in, as a sacrament or solemn rite; to perform with appropriate rites.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to celebrate a marriage
Related words: celebrant
celebrated
celebration
celebrative
celebrator
celebratory
celebrity
Derived words: celebratable
celebrate one's 19th birthday in Poland
celebrating Palm Sunday
concelebrate
over-celebrate
overcelebrate
precelebrate
recelebrate
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