Celebrator

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. An individual who partakes in joyful activities to recognize significant events or milestones
2. A person who participates in festivities to celebrate important achievements or occasions
3. An individual who engages in festivities to honor significant achievements or events

Etymology: "Celebrator" is a plain English formation: the verb "celebrate" with the agent suffix "-or", meaning one who celebrates. The suffix has a longer pedigree than the word it sits on. It travelled from Latin "-tor" and "-ator", which marked the doer of an action, through Old French "-eor" into Middle English as "-our", and English later settled on the spelling "-or" for words like this one. The root "celebrate" comes straight from Latin "celebrare", which meant to frequent a place, to honour an event with ceremony, or to make something widely known. That sense of crowds gathering and repeating an event is what the modern word keeps: a celebrator is someone who turns up and joins in the observance.

Synonyms: celebrant, participant, commemorator