Other forms: celebrations
A celebration is an occasion marked with enjoyment and ceremony. A birthday celebration, cause for celebration, celebrations lasted days.
It needs a reason and it needs other people, which is what separates it from simply enjoying yourself. Every culture marks births, marriages and harvests, and the shape of the celebration says a great deal about the society. Note celebrate; and that the Latin means to frequent or honour in numbers.
1nouncelebrationAn occasion marked with enjoyment and ceremony.
“There was a big celebration in the streets when the team won the cup.”
celebration is an occasion.
Latin celebratio comes from celebrare, to frequent or honour, from celeber, much visited. Celebrity comes from the same crowding.
Latin
celebratio
Old French
celebration
English, today
celebration
From Old French celebration, from Latin celebratio. Equivalent to celebrate + ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA