celebrate

1. 1.

   behave as expected during of holidays or rites

   “Keep the commandments”

   “celebrate Christmas”

   “Observe Yom Kippur”

   Synonymsobservekeep

   Narrowercommemoratemournsolemnize
2. 2.

   have a celebration

   “They were feting the patriarch of the family”

   “After the exam, the students were celebrating”

   Synonymsfete

   Broadermeet

   Narrowerjubilaterevelpartyreceive
3. 3.

   assign great social importance to

   “The film director was celebrated all over Hollywood”

   “The tenor was lionized in Vienna”

   Synonymslionizelionise

   Broaderrespect

Other forms of celebrate

past tense

celebrated·

present participle

celebrating·

third person

celebrates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about celebrate

What does celebrate mean?

celebrate means "behave as expected during of holidays or rites". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in celebrate?

celebrate has 3 syllables: cel-e-brate. The stress falls on "cel". In IPA it is /ˈsɛləˌbɹeɪt/.

What is another word for celebrate?

Close synonyms include observe, keep, fete, lionize, lionise. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is celebrate a common word?

celebrate is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with celebrate?

2 words rhyme with celebrate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.