celebrate (
http://definr.com/celebrate)
v 1: celebrate, as of holidays or rites; "Keep the commandments";
"celebrate Christmas"; "Observe Yom Kippur" [syn:
observe,
keep]
2: have a celebration; "They were feting the patriarch of the
family"; "After the exam, the students were celebrating"
[syn:
fete]
3: assign great social importance to; "The film director was
celebrated all over Hollywood"; "The tenor was lionized in
Vienna" [syn:
lionize]