| 单词 | ceremonial |
| 释义 | ceremonial (once / 984 pages) adjn When an occasion is extremely formal and full of rituals, you can call it ceremonial. Your cousin's fancy wedding and your friend's bar mitzvah are both ceremonial events. The ritual of a new queen being crowned is ceremonial, with its pomp and formality. The way your family celebrates Thanksgiving might feel ceremonial to you as well, if everyone takes it very seriously and sticks to firm rules about what food to eat and who carves the turkey. Ceremonial originally described a purely religious ritual, from the Latin caerimonia, "holiness or sacredness." WORD FAMILYceremonial: ceremonially, ceremonials, unceremonial+/ceremonious: ceremoniously, ceremoniousness, unceremonious/ceremony: ceremonial, ceremonies, ceremonious/unceremonial: unceremonially/unceremonious: unceremoniously, unceremoniousness USAGE EXAMPLESMonday is largely a ceremonial day, starting with the inauguration of statewide elected officials. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Cambodia's kings once enjoyed a semi-divine status, but the role is mostly ceremonial nowadays. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) At best, he added, “we’re now little more than a ceremonial presence on the sidelines of life”. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) 1adj marked by pomp or ceremony or formality a ceremonial occasion ceremonial garb Syn formal being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress) 2n a formal event performed on a special occasion Syn|Hypo|Hyper ceremonial occasion, ceremony, observance circumstance formal ceremony about important occasions funerala ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated hymeneals, nuptials, wedding, wedding ceremonythe social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed pageant, pageantrya rich and spectacular ceremony dedicationa ceremony in which something (as a building) is dedicated to some goal or purpose openinga ceremony accompanying the start of some enterprise commemoration, memorialisation, memorializationa ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something military ceremonya formal ceremony performed by military personnel induction, initiation, installationa formal entry into an organization or position or office exercise(usually plural) a ceremony that involves processions and speeches fire walkingthe ceremony of walking barefoot over hot stones or a bed of embers formalities, formalitya requirement of etiquette or custom Maundya public ceremony on Maundy Thursday when the monarch distributes Maundy money potlatcha ceremonial feast held by some Indians of the northwestern coast of North America (as in celebrating a marriage or a new accession) in which the host gives gifts to tribesmen and others to display his superior wealth (sometimes, formerly, to his own impoverishment) inaugural, inaugurationthe ceremonial induction into a position burial, entombment, inhumation, interment, sepulturethe ritual placing of a corpse in a grave sky buriala traditional Tibetan funeral ritual in which the corpse is exposed to the open air to be eaten by sacred vultures rededicationa new dedication coronation, enthronement, enthronisation, enthronization, investiturethe ceremony of installing a new monarch bar mitzvah(Judaism) an initiation ceremony marking the 13th birthday of a Jewish boy and signifying the beginning of religious responsibility bas mitzvah, bat mitzvah, bath mitzvah(Judaism) an initiation ceremony marking the 12th birthday of a Jewish girl and signifying the beginning of religious responsibility commencement, commencement ceremony, commencement exercise, graduation, graduation exercisean academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred affair, function, occasion, social function, social occasion a vaguely specified social event |
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