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noun a formal event performed on a special occasion
noun any activity that is performed in an especially solemn elaborate or formal way
noun the proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion
originFrom Middle English cerymonye, from Latin caerimonia or caeremonia, later often cerimonia (“sacredness, reverence, a sacred rite”).
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