celebrate

v 1: celebrate, as of holidays or rites; "Keep the commandments";

"celebrate Christmas"; "Observe Yom Kippur" [syn: {observe},

{keep}]

2: have a celebration; "They were feting the patriarch of the

family"; "After the exam, the students were celebrating"

[syn: {fete}]

3: assign great social importance to; "The film director war

celebrated all over Hollywood"; "The tenor was lionized in

Vienna" [syn: {lionize}]