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precelebrate

precelebrate verb: to celebrate in advance.

Verb

precelebrate (third-person singular simple present precelebrates, present participle precelebrating, simple past and past participle precelebrated)

  1. (transitive) To celebrate in advance.
    • The Chinese executive also appreciated Ho and his administration to use the 2005 EAG to precelebrate the Beijing 2008 Olympics.2019, Marcus P. Chu, Politics of Mega-Events in China's Hong Kong and Macao, page 137

Forms of precelebrate

third-person singular presentprecelebrates
present participleprecelebrating
past participleprecelebrated
pastprecelebrated

Origin of precelebrate

From pre- + celebrate.

Questions about precelebrate

What does precelebrate mean?
Precelebrate means to celebrate in advance.
What part of speech is precelebrate?
Precelebrate is a verb.
What is the past tense of precelebrate?
The past tense of precelebrate is precelebrated.

Words near precelebrate in the dictionary

  1. preceding
  2. precedingly
  3. preceed
  4. preceeding
  5. precel
  6. precelebrate
  7. precelebrated
  8. precelebrates
  9. precelebrating
  10. precelebration
  11. precelebrations

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