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celebratory

adj
/ˈsɛləbɹəˌtɔːɹi/US/ˌsɛlɪˈbɹeɪtəɹi/UK

Etymology

From celebrate + -ory.

  1. borrowed from celebrātus
  2. inherited from celebraten
  3. suffixed as celebratory — “celebrate + ory”

Definitions

  1. Having the manner of, or forming part of, a celebration.

    • Hiro ducks out of Tranny's celebratory dinner rather early, drags Reason off the zodiac and onto the front porch of the houseboat, opens it up and jacks his personal computer into its bios.
    • But, with United fans in celebratory mood as it appeared their team might snatch glory, they faced an anxious wait as City equalised in stoppage time.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at celebratory. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at celebratory. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at celebratory

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA