family celebrantとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

family celebrant (複数形 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.
   • 2009, Neil Dorward, The Guide to a Dead Brilliant Funeral Speech, ISBN 1905823568:

     Some families are taking this further and are finding their own family spokespersons or family celebrants.

   • 2016 May 15, Rosalie R. Radomsky, “Linda Jeng and Conor Healy: A Rat, a Leap and a Neat Bookshelf”, in New York Times:

     On May 29, they are to have a nonbinding cultural ceremony at Luttrellstown Castle, an event space in Dublin, where Simone Walsh, a civil family celebrant, is to lead the couple in a Celtic handfasting ceremony in which they bind their hands together with a ribbon.

   • 2017 February 25, Hilarie Stelfox, “Who was Marie Curie and why should you buy a daffodil this March?”, in Huddersfield Daily Examiner:

     She is also a family celebrant and conducts baby naming ceremonies.

2. Used other than as an idiom: see family,‎ celebrant.
   • 1996, Nancy E. Snow, In the Company of Others: Perspectives on Community, Family, and Culture, ISBN 0847681459:

     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.

   • 2003, Mario Puzo & ‎Carol Gino, The Family, ISBN 0099464748, page 41:

     Cesare Borgia followed his father, the Pope, up the aisle; in their wake were Cesare's mother, Vanozza, his sister, Lucrezia, and his brothers, Juan and Jofre. Behind them were other family celebrants.