 commemorate |
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| 1. | [ verb ] mark by some ceremony or observation | |
| Synonyms: | mark | |
| Examples: | "We marked the anniversary of his death" |
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| Related terms: | observe commemoration | |
| 2. | [ verb ] call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony | |
| Synonyms: | remember | |
| Examples: | "We remembered the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz" "Remember the dead of the First World War" |
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| Related terms: | recall commemoration | |
| 3. | [ verb ] be or provide a memorial to a person or an event | |
| Synonyms: | immortalize record memorialise immortalise memorialize | |
| Examples: | "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps" "We memorialized the Dead" |
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| Related terms: | remind monumentalize record memorial | |
| Similar spelling: |
commemorative commemoration commemorating commoner |
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