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celebrate in English:

1. celebration celebration


We gave a party in celebration of his 70th birthday.
My phone rang in the middle of the celebration.
The wedding celebrations went on all night.
Sounds like this is cause for celebration, right?
I know that there are some celebrations in Madrid today.
What's your favourite family celebration?
If our football team wins the championship there will be a huge celebration on the streets.
Mr Philips, along with some friends and neighbors, is planning a celebration.
I feel a little guilty that I didn't invite him to join the celebration.
Among the Uighurs, a "Naming Celebration" is held after a child is given a name.

2. celebrate celebrate


The United States has many plans to celebrate.
Quite a few people have been invited to celebrate the couple's anniversary.
This is a time of year when people get together with family and friends to observe Passover and to celebrate Easter.
It is said that Japanese people don't celebrate Christmas the way Americans do.
Celebrate in style!
Jack has passed his exams. We are going out to celebrate.
For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime — two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century.
We celebrate November 28 as Tatoeba day because it is the day when Turkish, Esperanto and Greek were added.
Christopher Columbus demanded that an entire "Columbus Week" be set aside to celebrate his glory, but in the end only got a day, and only in America.
In China, they celebrate New Year by the lunar calendar.
Young and old in Japan celebrate New Year's Day.
A large crowd of Americans gathered outside the White House to celebrate the death of a human being in the same manner as they would celebrate winning a football game.
I haven't celebrated this occassion since I was a child

English word "celebrate"(celebrate) occurs in sets:

[edoo] Pronunciation

3. commemorate commemorate


Recently a special service was held to commemorate its 750 years
The government decided to commemorate the anniversary.
This plaque commemorates the events of 11th September, 2001.
Since that time, Tibetans have not been allowed tocommemorate that day freely
Youngsters have recited poetry to commemorate a century of war.
They were erected to commemorate a certain event or to tell an ancestral legend.