Associations to the word «Ceremony»

Wiktionary

CEREMONY, noun. A ritual with religious significance.
CEREMONY, noun. An official gathering to celebrate, commemorate, or otherwise mark some event.
CEREMONY, noun. A formal socially established behaviour, often in relation to people of different ranks.
CEREMONY, noun. (obsolete) An omen or portent.

Dictionary definition

CEREMONY, noun. A formal event performed on a special occasion; "a ceremony commemorating Pearl Harbor".
CEREMONY, noun. 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".
CEREMONY, noun. The proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion; "an inaugural ceremony".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats