celebrants
Those who commemorate
Celebrants are people participating in a celebration or ceremony.
The word often appears in religious or ritual contexts—a priest may be the principal celebrant at Mass, while wedding celebrants officiate marriages.
More broadly, celebrants are simply those taking part in festivities: New Year's Eve celebrants filled the streets.
Those who celebrate noisily
- partygoersCelebration attendees
- merrymakersPeople celebrating joyfully
- guestsPeople received hospitably
- festivalgoersPeople attending celebrations
carnival · fiesta · gala · jubilee · parade · feast · banquet · pageant
Those who revere religiously
- congregantsMembers attending religious services
- devoteesPassionate adherents
- parishionersMembers of local congregation
- communicantsThose receiving holy communion
pilgrims · priest · liturgy · sacrament · rites · ceremony · altar · offering
Constructing from components
- congregationAssembled group of worshippers
- reunionGathering after separation
- attendeesPeople at an event
- crowdLarge public gathering
audience · participants · convocation · summit · conference · conclave · forum · meetup
Fifteenth birthday celebration
- bar mitzvahJewish adulthood ceremony
- bat mitzvahFemale Jewish adulthood rite
- DiwaliHindu festival of lights
- EidIslamic holy celebration
Holi · Carnival · Mardi Gras · Lunar New Year · Oktoberfest · Day of the Dead · solstice · harvest
revelers
Those who celebrate noisily
- partygoersCelebration attendees
- merrymakersPeople celebrating joyfully
- guestsPeople received hospitably
festivalgoers · carnival · fiesta · gala · jubilee · parade · feast · banquet · pageant · fair
worshippers
Those who revere religiously
- congregantsMembers attending religious services
- devoteesPassionate adherents
- parishionersMembers of local congregation
communicants · pilgrims · priest · liturgy · sacrament · rites · ceremony · altar · offering · procession
assembly
Constructing from components
- congregationAssembled group of worshippers
- reunionGathering after separation
- attendeesPeople at an event
crowd · audience · participants · convocation · summit · conference · conclave · forum · meetup · session
quinceañera
Fifteenth birthday celebration
- bar mitzvahJewish adulthood ceremony
- bat mitzvahFemale Jewish adulthood rite
- DiwaliHindu festival of lights
Eid · Holi · Carnival · Mardi Gras · Lunar New Year · Oktoberfest · Day of the Dead · solstice · harvest · ancestors
- partygoerspartygoers, party-goer, party-goers, attendee, partier
- restaurantgoersregulars, first-timers, walk-ins, reservations, guests
- admirersfans, devotees, followers, enthusiasts, admirers
- devoteesdevotee, devotees, adherent, adherents, follower
- processionsparade, procession, march, funeral procession, military parade
- paganspagans, neo-pagans, heathens, druids, polytheists
celebrantsmourners
Those lamenting a death
grievers · bereaved · lamenting · pallbearers · penitents
celebrantsspectators
Those who observe events
onlookers · bystanders · observers · wallflowers · abstainers
celebrantsprotesters
Those publicly opposing something
dissenters · objectors · boycotters · killjoys · naysayers
- wedding celebrantMarriage ceremony presider
- birthday celebrantPerson marking their arrival date