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cer⋅e⋅mo⋅ny

  [ser-uh-moh-nee]
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–noun, plural -nies.
1. the formal activities conducted on some solemn or important public or state occasion: the coronation ceremony.
2. a formal religious or sacred observance; a solemn rite: a marriage ceremony.
3. formal observances or gestures collectively; ceremonial observances: The breathless messenger had no time for ceremony.
4. any formal act or observance, esp. a meaningless one: His low bow was mere ceremony.
5. a gesture or act of politeness or civility: the ceremony of a handshake.
6. strict adherence to conventional forms; formality: to leave a room without ceremony.
—Idiom
7. stand on ceremony, to behave in a formal or ceremonious manner.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME ceremonie < ML cēremōnia, L caerimōnia sacred rite; r. ME cerymonye < MF cerimonie < L, as above

Synonyms:
1, 2. Ceremony, rite, ritual refer to set observances and acts traditional in religious services or on public occasions. Ceremony applies to more or less formal dignified acts on religious or public occasions: a marriage ceremony; an inaugural ceremony. A rite is an established, prescribed, or customary form of religious or other solemn practice: the rite of baptism. Ritual refers to the form of conducting worship or to a code of ceremonies in general: Masonic rituals.
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Word Origin & History

ceremony 
c.1380, from M.L. ceremonia, from L. cærimonia "awe, reverent rite," an obscure word, possibly of Etruscan origin, or a reference to the ancient rites performed by the Etruscan pontiffs at Caere, near Rome. Introduced in Eng. by Wyclif.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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