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Synonyms for ceremony in English

• commemoration
• inauguration
• ceremonial occasion
• celebration
• celebrating
• presentation
• handing over
• anniversary
• solemnization
• commemorative
• married couple
• memorial service

Mister Mayor, the lieutenant governor still wants to set up a time for your award ceremony .

The ceremony is usually preceded by a debate on European topics.

• non-delivery
• termination

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Other forms: presentations

The noun presentation means the official giving, or presenting, of something. The presentation of diplomas at a graduation ceremony is the part that makes many of the parents in the audience cry.

A presentation can be a ceremony of giving some gift or award, and it can also be a demonstration or show — like a dog training presentation at your local pet store. Another meaning of presentation is a style of displaying something — like the presentation of plants and flowers in the florist's window or the presentation of food on a buffet table. In the 1600s, presentation was commonly used to mean "show or play," as in "a theatrical presentation ."

• noun the activity of formally presenting something (as a prize or reward) “she gave the trophy but he made the presentation ” see more see less type of: ceremony the proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion
• noun the act of presenting a proposal see more see less types: first reading the first presentation of a bill in a legislature second reading the second presentation of a bill in a legislature; to approve its general principles (Britain) or to discuss a committee's report and take a vote (US) type of: proposal , proposition the act of making a proposal
• noun the act of making something publicly available; presenting news or other information by broadcasting or printing it “he prepared his presentation carefully in advance” see more see less types: unveiling putting on display for the first time production a presentation for the stage or screen or radio or television staging , theatrical production the production of a drama on the stage type of: display exhibiting openly in public view
• noun formally making a person known to another or to the public synonyms: intro , introduction see more see less types: debut the presentation of a debutante in society reintroduction an act of renewed introduction type of: informing , making known a speech act that conveys information
• noun a show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view “the presentation of new data” synonyms: demonstration , presentment see more see less types: show 19 types... hide 19 types... exhibition the act of exhibiting exposure presentation to view in an open or public manner performance the act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment lecture demonstration presentation of an example of what the lecturer is discoursing about counterdemonstration a demonstration held in opposition to another demonstration dramatic performance , dramatic production the act of performing a drama encore an extra or repeated performance; usually given in response to audience demand extemporisation , extemporization , improvisation a performance given extempore without planning or preparation juggle , juggling throwing and catching several objects simultaneously conjuration , conjuring trick , deception , illusion , legerdemain , magic , magic trick , thaumaturgy , trick an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers musical performance the act of performing music one-night stand a performance in one place on one night only interpretation , rendering , rendition the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance last hurrah , swan song a final performance or effort (especially before retirement) debunking , repudiation the exposure of falseness or pretensions production (law) the act of exhibiting in a court of law rodeo an exhibition of cowboy skills program , programme a performance (or series of performances) at a public presentation reprise the act of performing a role again type of: show the act of publicly exhibiting or entertaining
• noun a visual representation of something synonyms: display see more see less types: show 5 types... hide 5 types... float an elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade Snellen chart display consisting of a printed card with letters and numbers in lines of decreasing size; used to test visual acuity spectacle an elaborate and remarkable display on a lavish scale bullfight , corrida a Spanish or Portuguese or Latin American spectacle; a matador baits and (usually) kills a bull in an arena before many spectators naumachia , naumachy a naval spectacle; a mock sea battle put on by the ancient Romans type of: representation a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something
• noun (obstetrics) position of the fetus in the uterus relative to the birth canal “Cesarean sections are sometimes the result of abnormal presentations ” see more see less type of: attitude , position , posture the arrangement of the body and its limbs

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Synonyms of ceremonial

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Thesaurus Definition of ceremonial

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Synonyms & Similar Words

• ceremonious
• conventional
• ritualistic
• respectable
• formalistic

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unconventional
• unauthorized
• unceremonious
• freewheeling
• inappropriate
• infelicitous

Thesaurus Definition of ceremonial  (Entry 2 of 2)

• celebration
• proprieties

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How is the word ceremonial distinct from other similar adjectives?

Some common synonyms of ceremonial are ceremonious , conventional , and formal . While all these words mean "marked by attention to or adhering strictly to prescribed forms," ceremonial and ceremonious both imply strict attention to what is prescribed by custom or by ritual, but ceremonial applies to things that are associated with ceremonies.

When can ceremonious be used instead of ceremonial ?

While in some cases nearly identical to ceremonial , ceremonious applies to persons given to ceremony or to acts attended by ceremony.

When is it sensible to use conventional instead of ceremonial ?

While the synonyms conventional and ceremonial are close in meaning, conventional implies accord with general custom and usage and may suggest a stodgy lack of originality or independence.

When could formal be used to replace ceremonial ?

In some situations, the words formal and ceremonial are roughly equivalent. However, formal applies both to things prescribed by and to persons obedient to custom and may suggest stiff, restrained, or old-fashioned behavior.

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What to know for the start of the Paralympic Games

The summer of games is not over.

After what might be considered the first true post-Covid Olympics , the Paralympic Games are set to take place in Paris beginning Wednesday, running for 11 days through Sept. 8.

Here’s what to keep an eye on during the opening ceremony, including the biggest American stars competing over the first few days of the Games.

Many paralympic events are classified based on an athlete’s impairment such as T/S11 (athletes with extremely low visual acuity and/or no light perception ) and T/S37 (ambulant events for athletes with a movement disorder, including cerebral palsy). For a full list of classifications, click here .

Opening ceremony

The battle for the 549 gold medals up for grabs begins Wednesday with a historic opening ceremony. For the first time, the festivities will not take place in a stadium.

Instead, competitors from over 180 countries will stroll down the Champs-Élysées to Place de la Concorde, while the public can watch along Paris’ most famous thoroughfare.

The ceremony will include a variety of performers with disabilities, and the cobblestones of the Champs-Élysées have even been temporarily covered with a layer of asphalt to better accommodate the Paralympic athletes.

The opening ceremony will air live on USA at 2 p.m. ET on Wednesday. Highlights of the ceremony can also be seen in primetime coverage on Friday 9 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock.

Click here for a schedule of events and how you can watch them.

Preliminaries begin in wheelchair rugby as well as men’s wheelchair basketball. The U.S. men are attempting to become the first team to win three-straight gold medals in wheelchair basketball.

The rugby team is looking to win its first gold medal since Beijing in 2008. Sarah Adam will make history as the first woman to compete for the team.

Also taking place will be the finals in both the women’s 50-meter freestyle and women’s 100-meter butterfly. American Ellie Marks won silver in the 50-meter in Tokyo and will race again in Paris. In the 100-meter butterfly, American Grace Nuhfer is making her Paralympic debut and will be tasked with trying to take down Italy’s Carlotta Gilli, who has recently dominated the event in other competitions.

Prelims begin in women’s sitting volleyball and women’s wheelchair basketball, while men’s goalball prelims continue with U.S. beginning competition. There are also three finals to watch for: the women’s 400-meter freestyle S11, the women’s 100-meter backstroke and, on the track, the women’s 200-meter T37 .

The USA women’s wheelchair basketball team is looking for its third-straight medal in the event, winning gold in Rio and bronze in Tokyo. The sitting volleyball team, however, is looking for its third-straight gold.

Goalball has a chance to become your new favorite sport. It’s a competition for the visually impaired, who wear blindfolds and try to score a ball into their opponent’s net while using their whole bodies to defend. The ball has a bell in it for the athletes to hear, and it’s a spirited game combining elements of dodgeball, bowling and soccer. It doesn’t have an Olympic equivalent.

The U.S. men's goalball team is trying to get back on the podium after finishing fourth in Tokyo.

On the track, Americans Jaleen Roberts and Taylor Swanson will compete in the 200 meters.

In the pool, Anastasia Pagonis and Gia Pergolini, both current world-record holders, will defend their gold medals in the 400-meter freestyle S11 and 100-meter backstroke, respectively.

The third day of the Paralympics is loaded, with sevens finals featuring Americans.

Susannah Scaroni will defend her gold in the women’s 5,000-meter T54, her fourth time competing in the event in the Paralympics.

In the men’s 100-meter T38, three Americans will square off: Jaydin Blackwell, Ryan Medrano and Nick Mayhugh. Blackwell, 20, is making his Paralympic debut but is the favorite in the race after putting up dominant times in multiple world championship events leading up to Paris. Mayhugh has represented his country in soccer but took up sprinting during that sport’s offseason. Noah Malone will also be on the track after winning three medals in Tokyo, competing in the men’s 100-meter T12 final.

In the women’s 100-meter backstroke S8, Jessica Long will be competing in her sixth Paralympics. She’s medaled four straight times in the event but has never finished first.

Elsewhere, Olivia Chambers will swim the women’s 400-meter freestyle S13, 19-year-old Ezra French will compete in men’s long jump T63, and three Americans will race in the women’s 200-meter IM SM7: Mallory Weggemann, Julia Gaffney and Morgan Stickney.

Looking Ahead

• Hunter Woodhall, the husband of Olympic gold medalist Tara Woodhall-Davis, will compete in the men’s 100-meter T64 and the 400-meter T62
• Italy’s Valentina Petrillo will make history at 50 years old as the first transgender woman to compete in the Paralympic games when she races in the women’s 200-meter T12 as well as the 400-meter T12.
• Oksana Masters has won 17 medals across three Paralympic sports — skiing, rowing and para-cycling. She will compete in para-cycling in Paris in what will be her seventh appearance at the Games.

Rohan Nadkarni is a sports reporter for NBC News. 

An unprecedented Paralympic Ceremony

A magnificent groundbreaking ceremony at the heart of the city.

In 2024, Paris and France will host their first-ever Paralympic Summer Games. Paris 2024 is thinking big and reinventing the Opening Ceremony by taking it outside the confines of a traditional stadium. On 28 August 2024 at 20:00 local, Place de la Concorde and the Champs-Elysées will be the stage for this groundbreaking celebration in the heart of Paris .

This innovative project will be led by Thomas Jolly, Artistic Director for the Ceremonies:

“While the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony will be the first of its kind, its monumental and popular concept is, for me, first and foremost a magnificent source of inspiration. From the Champs-Elysées to Place de la Concorde, I look forward to creating this spectacle that will transform the heart of Paris, with performances that have never been seen before. A spectacle that will showcase the Paralympic athletes and the values that they embody. A spectacle that will unite spectators and television audiences worldwide around the unique spirit of the Paralympic Games.”

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A UNIQUE MOMENT FOR ATHLETES AND SPECTATORS

The ceremony will open with a popular parade on the iconic Champs-Elysées, involving up to 184 delegations from around the world. Spectators will be able to enjoy this unforgettable and celebratory moment, which will be open to everyone, alongside 6,000 athletes and officials. For ticket holders, the official parade will then take place on Place de la Concorde, in addition to the protocol and artistic sequences. The celebration of the opening of the Paralympic Games promises to be an exceptional event that will live long in the memories of all the spectators!

Working closely with the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), the French Paralympic and Sports Committee (CPSF), and the relevant authorities, Paris 2024 will ensure that universal accessibility is incorporated into all aspects of the ceremony so that athletes, participants and spectators can enjoy an experience that is free from any barriers.

Place de la Concorde is an iconic Parisian square situated between the Champs-Elysées and the Tuileries Gardens—just a short distance from the Assemblée Nationale and the Grand Palais. The largest square in Paris, it links several iconic buildings and monuments that illustrate the history of France. Created in the Enlightenment period, Place de la Concorde represents the philosophical, literary and cultural legacy that we have inherited from this philosophical movement which resonates with the Paralympic values. Place de la Concorde and the Champs-Elysées, the world’s most beautiful avenue, will be transformed into an outstanding stage to showcase the Paralympic movement in a breathtaking setting.

To ensure that the spotlight is firmly on the achievements of the Paralympic athletes, the values that they embody and the emotions that they inspire in us, Paris 2024 wanted to offer them a groundbreaking showcase by organising the first Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony outside the confines of a stadium. Looking beyond this exceptional setting offered for the leading athletes and spectators from around the world, this ceremony at the heart of the city is a strong symbol illustrating our ambition to capitalise on our country hosting its first-ever Paralympic Games to position the issue of inclusion for people with disabilities at the heart of our society.

The Games have an unrivalled transformational power. By choosing, for the first time, to organise the Opening Ceremony of the Paralympic Games at the heart of the city, on Place de la Concorde, this square which symbolises more than any other the unity of our nation, we are offering opportunities for everyone to see these athletes whose performances both command admiration and are truly inspirational. Enabling us, all together, to capitalise on this unique opportunity to change the way disabilities are viewed.

The city of love will get each Paralympian’s heart beating. What an incredible moment for our athletes, who will be part of a historic Opening Ceremony, on the world’s most famous avenue, surrounded by all the charm of Paris. The Paris 2024 Games will be an exceptional showcase to celebrate Paralympic sport in the eyes of the whole world.

KICKING OFF AN UNFORGETTABLE EVENT

The Opening Ceremony will mark the start of innovative Games that will leave lasting memories thanks to the achievements of exceptional athletes. Each Paralympic sport will have a prestigious space for expression, with events held at iconic sites that are representative of France’s heritage.

INCLUSION AT THE HEART OF THE GAMES AND THEIR OPENING CEREMONY

Through these Games and their ambitious Opening Ceremony at the heart of the city, Paris 2024 wants to leave a lasting and necessary legacy by changing the way disabilities are viewed and, looking beyond the Games, helping to build a more inclusive society and public space:

Pride, impatience, determination: these are the feelings inspired in us when we discovered the concept for this Opening Ceremony. I am really looking forward to being there and sharing these intense emotions with thousands of spectators.

Installation and dismantling schedule

March: Installation begins on the east side of the square (already occupied by the Rugby Village and not reopened to traffic since).

March - 1 June : Progressive extension of the site to the whole of Place de la Concorde

• 17 May: Closure of the east-west axis
• 1 June: Complete closure
• In the north-south direction, rue Royale is closed to general traffic, except for local services, from place de la Madeleine and from rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré to place de la Concorde.
• In the south-north direction, from the rue de Rivoli already restricted to general traffic, traffic will remain open on the rue Royale towards Madeleine. Local services will continue to be authorised in an east-west direction towards avenue Gabriel.
• In the west-east direction, on avenue des Champs-Elysées, traffic between avenue Winston Churchill and place de la Concorde is closed.
• The Concorde bridge is accessible from the Cours la Reine in a north-south direction and remains accessible for local traffic in a south-north direction.
• Diversions for bicycle traffic will be put in place (consultable on the paris.fr city venue).
• 1 June - 25 September: Closure of the La Concorde underground public car park

From 29 August-October: Gradual release of the right-of-way on Place de la Concorde

• 29 August: Dismantling begins the day after the Ceremony
• 1 September: Liberation of metro exits 1 and 8 and the Pont de la Concorde
• 9 September: Traffic reopens to allow North-South crossing
• 30 September: Liberation of the west of the square
• 30 October: Complete liberation of the Place

Île-de-France Mobilités and RATP will be gradually modifying bus services in the vicinity of the venues as soon as they are installed, in order to guarantee continuity of the public transport service as far as possible and maintain services throughout Paris. The lines concerned will be diverted, operated in two sections or limited depending on the events planned in the public space (opening ceremony, road races).

Metro services will operate normally throughout the Games. Only the Tuileries, Concorde and Champs-Elysées Clémenceau stations will be closed due to their location at or near a competition venue.

All this information is available to passengers on the Île-de-France Mobilités and RATP venues and applications.

Anticipating the Games

Discover the Ministry of Transport's interactive map to help you plan your journeys on the road and on public transport.

Find out more about the different security perimeters and special situations on the City of Paris venue.

Find all the maps and information on the different security perimeters during the Games on the Préfecture de police venue.

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