ceremonial occasion

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ceremonial occasion - a formal event performed on a special occasion; "a ceremony commemorating Pearl Harbor"ceremonial, ceremony, observancesocial function, social occasion, occasion, affair, function - a vaguely specified social event; "the party was quite an affair"; "an occasion arranged to honor the president"; "a seemingly endless round of social functions"circumstance - formal ceremony about important occasions; "pomp and circumstance"funeral - a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated; "hundreds of people attended his funeral"hymeneals, nuptials, wedding, wedding ceremony - the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performedpageantry, pageant - a rich and spectacular ceremonydedication - a ceremony in which something (as a building) is dedicated to some goal or purposeopening - a ceremony accompanying the start of some enterprisecommemoration, memorialisation, memorialization - a ceremony to honor the memory of someone or somethingmilitary ceremony - a formal ceremony performed by military personnelinduction, initiation, installation - a formal entry into an organization or position or office; "his initiation into the club"; "he was ordered to report for induction into the army"; "he gave a speech as part of his installation into the hall of fame"exercise - (usually plural) a ceremony that involves processions and speeches; "academic exercises"fire walking - the ceremony of walking barefoot over hot stones or a bed of embersformalities, formality - a requirement of etiquette or custom; "a mere formality"Maundy - a public ceremony on Maundy Thursday when the monarch distributes Maundy moneypotlatch - a ceremonial feast held by some Indians of the northwestern coast of North America (as in celebrating a marriage or a new accession) in which the host gives gifts to tribesmen and others to display his superior wealth (sometimes, formerly, to his own impoverishment)