celebration

Other forms of celebration

plural

celebrations·

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 celebration

What does celebration mean?

celebration means "a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in celebration?

celebration has 4 syllables: cel-e-bra-tion. The stress falls on "bra". In IPA it is /ˌsɛləˈbɹeɪʃən/.

What is another word for celebration?

Close synonyms include jubilation, festivity, solemnization, solemnisation. 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 celebration a common word?

celebration 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 celebration?

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