Meaning
忘年会 (ぼうねんかい, bounenkai) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “year-end party”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 7
明日は会社の忘年会があります。
The company will have a year-end party tomorrow.
忘年会の余興で大喜利をやることになった。
We decided to have a last piece on the programme at the year-end party.
私、今夜の忘年会には参加しないつもりなの。
I am not going to join the year-end party tonight.
森林組合などではこの日に祈願祭や忘年会、新年会を催すなど、祭の日の名残りが見られる。
Remains of the religious festival can be found on the day when forestry cooperatives hold a festival of worship, a year-end party, or a new-year party.
近代の忘年会がお祭りムードに変化したのは明治時代からで、無礼講などのキャッチフレーズで広まった。
It was the Meiji period when the present Bonenkai, a festive event was established; it was widespread with catchphrases such as Bureiko (unrestricted binge).
日本の忘年会の歴史は鎌倉時代もしくは室町時代に始まったと言われていて、和歌を詠むなど静かで厳かな内容だったとされている。
It is said that the history of Bonenkai of Japan began in the Kamakura or Muromachi period and it is thought that behavior of people at Bonenkai was quiet and solemn such as composing waka poems.
忘年会（ぼうねんかい）とは、組織や集団が一年の終わりにその一年間を振り返り、その間の苦労をねぎらい、忘れると共に新たな一年に向けて気持ちを新たにするために行われる年中行事である。
Bonenkai (literally, forget-the-year party) is an annual event held at the end of the year by an organization or group to give those attending a chance to look back at the past year and show their appreciation for the hardships they have each endured, before forgetting the current year and committing themselves to making a fresh start in the upcoming year.