ceremony

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsɛɹ.ɪ.mə.ni/
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• General-American: /ˈsɛɹ.əˌmoʊ.ni/
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From Middle English cerymonye, from Latin caerimonia or caeremonia, later often cerimonia (“sacredness, reverence, a sacred rite”).

191 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: ceremoni — ritual with religious significance
• Arabic: مَرَاسِم (marāsim) — ritual with religious significance
• Arabic: طُقُوس (ṭuqūs) — ritual with religious significance
• Arabic: طَقْس مُقَدِّس (ṭaqs muqaddis) — ritual with religious significance
• Arabic: اِحْتِفَال (iḥtifāl) — ritual with religious significance
• Armenian: ծես (ces) — ritual with religious significance
• Asturian: ceremonia — ritual with religious significance
• Azerbaijani: mərasim — ritual with religious significance
• Azerbaijani: ayin — ritual with religious significance
• Bashkir: йола (yola) — ritual with religious significance
• Basque: zeremonia — ritual with religious significance
• Belarusian: цырымо́нія (cyrymónija) — ritual with religious significance
• Belarusian: абра́д (abrád) — ritual with religious significance
• Bengali: অনুষ্ঠান (onuśṭhan) — ritual with religious significance
• Bulgarian: обре́д (obréd) — ritual with religious significance
• Bulgarian: церемо́ния (ceremónija) — ritual with religious significance
• Burmese: အခမ်းအနား (a.hkam:a.na:) — ritual with religious significance
• Catalan: cerimònia — ritual with religious significance
• Chinese Mandarin: 儀式 /仪式 (yíshì) — ritual with religious significance
• Chinese Mandarin: 祭 (jì) — ritual with religious significance
• Czech: obřad — ritual with religious significance
• Danish: ceremoni — ritual with religious significance
• Dutch: ceremonie — ritual with religious significance
• Dutch: plechtigheid — ritual with religious significance
• Egyptian: i-ir-w-A53 (jrw) — ritual with religious significance
• Esperanto: ceremonio — ritual with religious significance
• Estonian: tseremoonia — ritual with religious significance
• Finnish: seremonia — ritual with religious significance
• French: cérémonie — ritual with religious significance
• Galician: cerimonia — ritual with religious significance
• Georgian: ცერემონია (ceremonia) — ritual with religious significance
• Georgian: წესჩვეულება (c̣esčveuleba) — ritual with religious significance
• German: Zeremonie — ritual with religious significance
• German: feierliche Handlung — ritual with religious significance
• German: Ritual — ritual with religious significance
• Greek: τελετή (teletí) — ritual with religious significance
• Ancient Greek: τελετή (teletḗ) — ritual with religious significance
• Hebrew: טֶקֶס (tekes) — ritual with religious significance
• Hindi: समारोह (samāroh) — ritual with religious significance
• Hindi: अनुष्ठान (anuṣṭhān) — ritual with religious significance
• Hindi: विधि (vidhi) — ritual with religious significance
• Hittite: 𒊭𒀝𒆷𒅖 — ritual with religious significance
• Hungarian: szertartás — ritual with religious significance
• Icelandic: athöfn — ritual with religious significance
• Indonesian: upacara — ritual with religious significance
• Indonesian: seremoni — ritual with religious significance
• Italian: cerimonia — ritual with religious significance
• Japanese: 儀式 (gishiki) — ritual with religious significance
• Japanese: 式典 (shikiten) — ritual with religious significance
• Kazakh: рәсім (räsım) — ritual with religious significance
• Khmer: ពិធី (pithii) — ritual with religious significance
• Kimaragang: pongadatan — ritual with religious significance
• Korean: 예식 (yesik) — ritual with religious significance
• Korean: 의식 (uisik) — ritual with religious significance
• Korean: 식전 (sikjeon) — ritual with religious significance
• Kyrgyz: азем (azem) — ritual with religious significance
• Lao: ພິທີ (phi thī) — ritual with religious significance
• Latin: caerimōnia — ritual with religious significance
• Latvian: ceremonija — ritual with religious significance
• Lithuanian: ceremonija — ritual with religious significance
• Macedonian: церемонија (ceremonija) — ritual with religious significance
• Malay: upacara — ritual with religious significance
• Malayalam: ചടങ്ങ് (caṭaṅṅŭ) — ritual with religious significance
• Malayalam: ആചാരം (ācāraṁ) — ritual with religious significance
• Māori: ritenga — ritual with religious significance
• Māori: kawanga — ritual with religious significance
• Mongolian: ёслол (joslol) — ritual with religious significance
• Navajo: hatáál — ritual with religious significance
• Norman: cérémonie — ritual with religious significance
• Norwegian Bokmål: seremoni — ritual with religious significance
• Occitan: ceremònia — ritual with religious significance
• Persian: مراسم (marâsem) — ritual with religious significance
• Plautdietsch: Zerremonie — ritual with religious significance
• Polish: ceremonia — ritual with religious significance
• Polish: obrzęd — ritual with religious significance
• Brazilian Portuguese: cerimônia — ritual with religious significance
• European Portuguese: cerimónia — ritual with religious significance
• Romanian: ceremonie — ritual with religious significance
• Russian: церемо́ния (ceremónija) — ritual with religious significance
• Russian: обря́д (obrjád) — ritual with religious significance
• Russian: ритуа́л (rituál) — ritual with religious significance
• Sanskrit: विधि (vidhi) — ritual with religious significance
• Sanskrit: अनुष्ठान (anuṣṭhāna) — ritual with religious significance
• Scottish Gaelic: deas-ghnàth — ritual with religious significance
• Serbo-Croatian: церемо̀нија — ritual with religious significance
• Serbo-Croatian: свѐчано̄ст — ritual with religious significance
• Serbo-Croatian: о̀бред — ritual with religious significance
• Serbo-Croatian: ceremònija — ritual with religious significance
• Serbo-Croatian: svèčanōst — ritual with religious significance
• Serbo-Croatian: òbred — ritual with religious significance
• Slovak: obrad — ritual with religious significance
• Slovene: obred — ritual with religious significance
• Slovene: slovesnost — ritual with religious significance
• Spanish: ceremonia — ritual with religious significance
• Swedish: ceremoni — ritual with religious significance
• Tagalog: seremonya — ritual with religious significance
• Tagalog: galian — ritual with religious significance
• Tajik: маросим (marosim) — ritual with religious significance
• Tatar: мөрәсим (möräsim) — ritual with religious significance
• Telugu: ఉత్సవం (utsavaṁ) — ritual with religious significance
• Thai: พิธี (pí-tii) — ritual with religious significance
• Thai: พิธีกรรม (pí-tii-gam) — ritual with religious significance
• Turkish: seremoni — ritual with religious significance
• Turkish: ayin — ritual with religious significance
• Turkish: tören — ritual with religious significance
• Turkish: merasim — ritual with religious significance
• Ukrainian: церемо́нія (ceremónija) — ritual with religious significance
• Ukrainian: обря́д (obrjád) — ritual with religious significance
• Urdu: تَقْرِیب (taqrīb) — ritual with religious significance
• Uyghur: مۇراسىم (murasim) — ritual with religious significance
• Uzbek: marosim — ritual with religious significance
• Vietnamese: nghi thức — ritual with religious significance
• Vietnamese: nghi lễ — ritual with religious significance
• Welsh: seremoni — ritual with religious significance
• Yiddish: צערעמאָניע (tseremonye) — ritual with religious significance
• Arabic: رَسْمِيَّات (rasmiyyāt) — official gathering to celebrate
• Arabic: مَرَاسِم (marāsim) — official gathering to celebrate
• Arabic: حَفْل (ḥafl) — official gathering to celebrate
• Armenian: արարողություն (araroġutʻyun) — official gathering to celebrate
• Belarusian: цырымо́нія (cyrymónija) — official gathering to celebrate
• Bulgarian: церемо́ния (ceremónija) — official gathering to celebrate
• Chinese Mandarin: 典禮 /典礼 (diǎnlǐ) — official gathering to celebrate
• Chinese Mandarin: -式 (-shì) — official gathering to celebrate
• Czech: ceremonie — official gathering to celebrate
• Czech: obřad — official gathering to celebrate
• Danish: ceremoni — official gathering to celebrate
• Dutch: ceremonie — official gathering to celebrate
• Dutch: plechtigheid — official gathering to celebrate
• Estonian: tseremoonia — official gathering to celebrate
• Finnish: seremonia — official gathering to celebrate
• Finnish: juhla — official gathering to celebrate
• Finnish: juhlallisuudet — official gathering to celebrate
• French: cérémonie — official gathering to celebrate
• Galician: cerimonia — official gathering to celebrate
• Georgian: ცერემონია (ceremonia) — official gathering to celebrate
• German: Feier — official gathering to celebrate
• German: Zeremonie — official gathering to celebrate
• Greek: τελετή (teletí) — official gathering to celebrate
• Hebrew: טֶקֶס (tekes) — official gathering to celebrate
• Hindi: समारोह (samāroh) — official gathering to celebrate
• Icelandic: athöfn — official gathering to celebrate
• Italian: cerimonia — official gathering to celebrate
• Japanese: 典礼 (tenrei) — official gathering to celebrate
• Japanese: -式 (shiki) — official gathering to celebrate
• Japanese: セレモニー (seremonī) — official gathering to celebrate
• Korean: 전례 (jeollye) — official gathering to celebrate
• Korean: 세리머니 (serimeoni) — official gathering to celebrate
• Macedonian: церемонија (ceremonija) — official gathering to celebrate
• Malayalam: ചടങ്ങ് (caṭaṅṅŭ) — official gathering to celebrate
• Mongolian: ёслол (joslol) — official gathering to celebrate
• Norman: cérémonie — official gathering to celebrate
• Polish: ceremonia — official gathering to celebrate
• Brazilian Portuguese: cerimônia — official gathering to celebrate
• European Portuguese: cerimónia — official gathering to celebrate
• Romanian: ceremonie — official gathering to celebrate
• Russian: церемо́ния (ceremónija) — official gathering to celebrate
• Scottish Gaelic: deas-ghnàth — official gathering to celebrate
• Serbo-Croatian: церемо̀нија — official gathering to celebrate
• Serbo-Croatian: свѐчано̄ст — official gathering to celebrate
• Serbo-Croatian: ceremònija — official gathering to celebrate
• Serbo-Croatian: svèčanōst — official gathering to celebrate
• Slovak: ceremónia — official gathering to celebrate
• Slovak: obrad — official gathering to celebrate
• Spanish: ceremonia — official gathering to celebrate
• Swedish: högtidlighet — official gathering to celebrate
• Swedish: ceremoni — official gathering to celebrate
• Telugu: వేడుక (vēḍuka) — official gathering to celebrate
• Turkish: tören — official gathering to celebrate
• Turkish: merasim — official gathering to celebrate
• Turkish: kutlama — official gathering to celebrate
• Ukrainian: церемо́нія (ceremónija) — official gathering to celebrate
• Welsh: seremoni — official gathering to celebrate
• Arabic: حَفْل رَسْمِيّ (ḥafl rasmiyy) — formal socially-established behaviour
• Bulgarian: етикет (etiket) — formal socially-established behaviour
• Chinese Mandarin: 禮節 /礼节 (lǐjié) — formal socially-established behaviour
• Chinese Mandarin: 儀禮 /仪礼 (yílǐ) — formal socially-established behaviour
• Finnish: muodollinen käytös — formal socially-established behaviour
• Finnish: muodollisuus — formal socially-established behaviour
• Finnish: kursailu — formal socially-established behaviour
• Galician: cerimonia — formal socially-established behaviour
• Greek: τελετουργικό (teletourgikó) — formal socially-established behaviour
• Japanese: 儀礼 (girei) — formal socially-established behaviour
• Polish: ceremonia — formal socially-established behaviour
• Brazilian Portuguese: cerimônia — formal socially-established behaviour
• European Portuguese: cerimónia — formal socially-established behaviour
• Romanian: ceremonie — formal socially-established behaviour
• Russian: этике́т (etikét) — formal socially-established behaviour
• Scottish Gaelic: deas-ghnàth — formal socially-established behaviour
• Spanish: ceremonia — formal socially-established behaviour
• Thai: พิธีการ (pí-tii-gaan) — formal socially-established behaviour
• Turkish: tören — formal socially-established behaviour