Associations to the word «Christening»

Wiktionary

CHRISTENING, noun. The Christian sacrament at which someone, usually a child, is baptized and given a Christian name.
CHRISTENING, noun. Any instance of someone's or something's being christened.
CHRISTENING, verb. Present participle of christen

Dictionary definition

CHRISTENING, noun. Giving a Christian name at baptism.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope