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celebrationary en · ADJ

Etymology

From celebration + -ary.

Meanings

1. (nonstandard) celebratory
   • After standing around in talk for a while, during which time Doris arrived with my hat and raincoat (left with her at the site) we made our way some two hundred strong, up the gracious stone stairway to the Hall of Christ Church, loaned by that College for the celebrationary lunch. 1987, Sir Raymond Streat, Marguerite Dupree, Lancashire and Whitehall: The Diary of Sir Raymond Streat:
   • Named by Decanter magazine as one of the world's top 20 organic wines, Broughton Pastures' sparkling organic wine employs the classic methode Champenoise, making it the perfect celebrationary drink. 2001, The Living Earth: Journal of the Soil Association:
   • Let us go back to January 25th, to Eckford Hall (Eckford and Calyer Street) for the 130th anniversary of Robert Burns, held by the Greenpoint Burns Club; and, since we are in the celebrationary mood, let us leap forward, on March 4th, to St. Anthony's Parish Hall, for the Celtic Association's commemoration of the birthday of Robert Emmet. 1963, George Clinton Densmore Odell, Annals of the New York Stage:

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