celebrant

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From French célébrant, from Latin celebrāns, present participle of celebrō, equivalent to celebrate + -ant.

Nine-thirty being the hour, very few of the prospective celebrants arrived before ten. — From Place to Place, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
Mischievous celebrants we at these mysteries gay, and so solemn: Silence exactly befits rites at which we're adepts. — Erotica Romana, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In the Roman Catholic Church feasts are "movable" and "immovable," but the celebrants are uniformly immovable until they are full. — The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce

celebrator, celebrater

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