Word.ws English Dictionary

family celebrants

family celebrants is the plural of family celebrant.

Meaning of family celebrant

Noun

family celebrant (plural family celebrants)

  1. A person who conducts weddings, civil unions, naming ceremonies, and other celebrations of life events, but who is not a government or church official.
    • Some families are taking this further and are finding their own family spokespersons or family celebrants.2009, Neil Dorward, The Guide to a Dead Brilliant Funeral Speech, →ISBN
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see family, celebrant.
    • Family celebrants believe that familes are too good for justice. While justice negotiates between competing self-interests, family members share a single interest, the good of the family and each of its members.1996, Nancy E. Snow, In the Company of Others: Perspectives on Community, Family, and Culture, →ISBN

Questions about family celebrants

What is family celebrants the plural of?
Family celebrants is the plural of family celebrant.

Words near family celebrants in the dictionary

  1. family business
  2. family businesses
  3. family car
  4. family cars
  5. family celebrant
  6. family celebrants
  7. family circle
  8. family circles
  9. family court
  10. family courts
  11. Family Day

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: family celebrants (page history and authors); family celebrant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “family celebrants.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/family_celebrants. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.