OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 13965

celebrate

/ˈsɛl.ɪ.bɹeɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
alabar • honrar • loar
To extol or honour in a solemn manner.
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 Socie…
to celebrate the name of the Most High
celebrar
To honour by rites, by ceremonies of joy and respect, or by refraining from ordinary business; to observe duly.
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 vica…
to celebrate a birthday
celebrar • festejar
To engage in joyful activity in appreciation of an event.
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 lan…
I was promoted today at work—let’s celebrate!
celebrar
To perform or participate in, as a sacrament or solemn rite; to perform with appropriate rites.
to celebrate a marriage