1 to show that a day or an event is important by doing sth special on it:
[V] Jake's passed his exams. We're going out to celebrate. * [VN] We celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary in Florence. * How do people celebrate New Year in your country?
2 [VN] to perform a religious ceremony, especially the Christian COMMUNION service
3 [VN] (formal) to praise sb/sth:
songs that celebrate the joys of romantic love * a movie celebrating the life and work of Martin Luther King
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Is celebrate a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, celebrate is tagged as verb.
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