If you do something without ceremony, you do it quickly and in a casual way. `Is Hilton here?' she asked without ceremony. see also master of ceremonies
any activity that is performed in an especially solemn elaborate or formal way; "the ceremony of smelling the cork and tasting the wine"; "he makes a ceremony of addressing his golf ball"; "he disposed of it without ceremony"
a formal event performed on a special occasion; "a ceremony commemorating Pearl Harbor"
Behavior regulated by strict etiquette; a formal method of performing acts of civility; forms of civility prescribed by custom or authority
a gathering of people for a program, usually serious in nature, for a specific purpose