ceremony   (Sound)

The noun ceremony has 3 senses

• ceremony, ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, observance -- (a formal event performed on a special occasion; "a ceremony commemorating Pearl Harbor")


• ceremony -- (any activity that is performed in an especially solemn elaborate or formal way; "the ceremony of smelling the cork and tasting the wine"; "he makes a ceremony of addressing his golf ball"; "he disposed of it without ceremony")


• ceremony -- (the proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion; "an inaugural ceremony")