Usually means: Honor an occasion with joy.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word celebrate:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. celebrate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. celebrate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. celebrate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. celebrate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. celebrate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Celebrate, celebrate: Wordnik
  7. celebrate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. celebrate: Wiktionary
  9. celebrate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. celebrate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. celebrate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Celebrate, celebrate: Dictionary.com
  13. celebrate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. celebrate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Celebrate (DJ Khaled song), Celebrate (Daria Kinzer song), Celebrate (EP), Celebrate (Empire of the Sun song), Celebrate (James Durbin album), Celebrate (Mika song), Celebrate (Pitbull song), Celebrate (Three Dog Night song), Celebrate (song), Celebrate, Celebrate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Celebrate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. celebrate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. celebrate: Rhymezone
  19. celebrate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. celebrate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. celebrate: Free Dictionary
  22. celebrate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. celebrate: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. celebrate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. celebrate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. celebrate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. celebrate: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CELEBRATE: Acronym Finder
  2. celebrate: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. celebrate: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See celebrated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To extol or honour in a solemn manner.
verb:  (transitive) To honour by rites, by ceremonies of joy and respect, or by refraining from ordinary business; to observe duly.
verb:  (intransitive) To engage in joyful activity in appreciation of an event.
verb:  (transitive) To perform or participate in, as a sacrament or solemn rite; to perform with appropriate rites.

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