Meaning & use
Fêted
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Honored or celebrated, typically with a public event or lavish attention.
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The returning astronauts were fêted with a parade through the city.
She was fêted at a gala dinner for her decades of charitable work.
A note on using this word
Borrowed from French 'fête' (festival); it is often written with or without the circumflex accent in English (feted).
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