celebrating

celebrating

1. present participle and gerund of celebrate
   • 1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 25:

     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.

celebrating (plural celebratings)

1. celebration
   • 1961, Leonard J. Lea, Views from the Mountain, page 162:

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

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