celebrators or celebrants?

I think it is celebrant. I haven't heard about celebrators or someone called as celebrator.You can correct me on this.

depends on how it is used I suppose

celebrator or celebrant..? My spellcheck seems to think both! As far as spelling goes.. as to which one to use, I'm thinking they both mean the same thing.. o.k. I was curious so I had to look it up (I know, just call me nerd) - it says a celebrant is a celebrator.. and both words are listed in the variations list under celebrate.. So when we celebrate, we are both a celebrant and a celebrator.. "Celebrate!" - I like that word!

some people told me that for a birthday, that would be a celebrator. the celebrant is the one who celebrates mass. i checked the dictionary and they are correct, you can check that out in the dictionary as well. :-)

I have looked up both in the English dictionary online. I must admit that I would have used 'celebrant' but it states that more and more people are using 'celebrator'. Here is the link from Dictionary.com: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/celebrant This is what they say: Usage Note: Although celebrant is most often used to describe an official participant in a religious ceremony or rite, a majority of the Usage Panel accepted the use of celebrant to mean "a participant in a celebration" in an earlier survey. Still, while New Year's Eve celebrants may be an acceptable usage, celebrator is an uncontroversial alternative in this more general sense. So I would still use celebrant. It sounds better to me or I would change the sentence around and said that they were still celebrating that great party etc.