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celebrating

verbnouncommon in dialogue

celebration

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of celebratepresent participle and gerund of celebrate

    While De Anza was exploring the Bay of San Francisco, seeking a site for the presidio, the American colonists on the eastern seaboard, three thousand miles away, were celebrating the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

noun

  1. 1

    celebration

    Sometimes, at business meetings, bazaars, banquets, decoratings, celebratings, and what not, our animosities like wild tigers escape and create havoc in the flock.

Forms

plural
celebratings
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