Verb

(celebrat)

To extol or honour in a solemn manner.

to celebrate the name of the Most High

To honour by rites, by ceremonies of joy and respect, or by refraining from ordinary business; to observe duly; to keep.

to celebrate a birthday

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, title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=20 citation , passage=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.}}

To engage in joyful activity in appreciation of an event.

I was promoted today at work—let’s celebrate !

* {{quote-news

, year=2012 , date=May 5 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=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.}}

To perform or participate in, as a sacrament or solemn rite; to solemnize; to perform with appropriate rites.

to celebrate a marriage

Verb

To sing of or sing about; celebrate in song or poetry; sing the praises of; praise; laud.

*1728 , William Shakespeare, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), John Fletcher, Double falshood :

I have read Stories, (I fear, too true ones;) how young Lords, like you, Have thus besung mean Windows, rhymed their Sufferings Ev'n to th' Abuse of Things Divine, set up Plain Girls, like me, the Idols of their Worship, Then left them [...]

*1854 , Thomas Carlyle, Burns :

Let him dwindle into a modish balladmonger; let him worship and besing the idols of the time, and the time will not fail to reward him.

*1972 , Isobel Armstrong, Victorian scrutinies :

And in the meanwhile, how can a poet better employ himself (provided he does not confine his subject-matter to the Greeks, who have already besung' themselves far better than we can sing them, and to the Romans, who were ' besung by our Elizabethan poets better than they ever will be sung again), [...]

*2001 , Jørgen Bruhn, Jan Lundquist, The novelness of Bakhtin: perspectives and possibilities :

[...] Blanckenburg pointed out that one of the differences between the epic and the novel was that the classic epic was a "heroic poem" besinging the "public acts and events", the "actions of the citizen"; [...]

To sing to.