Usually means: Recognition or celebration of event.
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  1. observance: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. observance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. observance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. observance: Collins English Dictionary
  5. observance: Vocabulary.com
  6. Observance, observance: Wordnik
  7. observance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. observance: Wiktionary
  9. observance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. observance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. observance: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Observance, observance: Dictionary.com
  13. observance: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. observance: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Observance (disambiguation), Observance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Observance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. observance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. observance: Rhymezone
  19. observance, observance (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. observance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. observance: Free Dictionary
  22. observance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. observance: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. observance: Legal dictionary
  2. observance: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. observance: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The practice of complying with a law, custom, command or rule.
noun:  The custom of celebrating a holiday or similar occasion.
noun:  Observation or the act of watching.
noun:  (religion) A rule governing a religious order, especially in the Roman Catholic church.
noun:  That which is to be observed.
noun:  Reverence; homage.

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