The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Celebration \Cel`e*bra"tion\, n. [L. celebratio.]
   The act, process, or time of celebrating.
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         His memory deserving a particular celebration.
                                                  --Clarendok.
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         Celebration of Mass is equivalent to offering Mass
                                                  --Cath. Dict.
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         To hasten the celebration of their marriage. --Sir P.
                                                  Sidney.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

celebration
    n 1: a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some
         happy event [syn: celebration, jubilation]
    2: any joyous diversion [syn: celebration, festivity]
    3: the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with
       all appropriate ritual; "the celebration of marriage" [syn:
       celebration, solemnization, solemnisation]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

138 Moby Thesaurus words for "celebration":
   Sabbatarianism, agape, asperges, aspersion, auricular confession,
   baccalaureate service, bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian,
   banquet, bar mitzvah, bas mitzvah, bat, bender, binge, bout, bust,
   carousal, carouse, ceremonial, ceremonialism, ceremony,
   circumcision, commemoration, commencement, compotation, confession,
   confirmation, convocation, cult, cultism, cultus, debauch,
   drinking bout, drunk, drunken carousal, elation, empty formality,
   escapade, exercise, exercises, exultation, feast, festivity, fete,
   fling, formal, formalism, formality, frolic, function, gala,
   graduation, graduation exercises, guzzle, hallowing,
   high celebration, hoopla, inaugural, inauguration, incense,
   initiation, invocation, invocation of saints, jag, joyance,
   jubilance, jubilation, jubilee, kiss of peace, lark, lesser litany,
   litany, liturgics, liturgiology, liturgism, liturgy, love feast,
   lustration, mad round, memorialization, merriment, merrymaking,
   mummery, observance, observation, office, orgy, party, pax,
   performance, ploy, potation, praising, processional, pub-crawl,
   randan, randy, raucous happiness, reciting the rosary, regale,
   regalement, rejoicing, religious ceremony, revel, revelment,
   revelry, rite, rite de passage, rite of passage, ritual, ritualism,
   rituality, ritualization, round of pleasures, sabbatism,
   sacramentalism, sacramentarianism, sanctification, service,
   show of joy, solemn observance, solemnity, solemnization, spree,
   symbolics, symbolism, symposium, tear, telling of beads,
   the confessional, the confessionary, toot, treat, triumph, wassail,
   whoopee, wingding



Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

CELEBRATION, contracts. This word is usually applied, in law, to the
celebration of marriage, which is the solemn act by which a man and woman
take each other for husband and wife, conformably to the rules prescribed by
law. Diet. de Juris. h.t.



U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):

Celebration, FL -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Florida
   Population (2000):    2736
   Housing Units (2000): 1093
   Land area (2000):     10.669265 sq. miles (27.633268 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.028096 sq. miles (0.072769 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    10.697361 sq. miles (27.706037 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            11285
   Located within:       Florida (FL), FIPS 12
   Location:             28.320059 N, 81.540149 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Celebration, FL
    Celebration