COMMEMORATE
commemorate, remember
(verb) call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony; “We remembered the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz”; “Remember the dead of the First World War”
commemorate, memorialize, memorialise, immortalize, immortalise
(verb) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event; “This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps”; “We memorialized the Dead”
commemorate, mark
(verb) celebrate by some ceremony or observation; “The citizens mark the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
commemorate (third-person singular simple present commemorates, present participle commemorating, simple past and past participle commemorated)
(transitive) To honour the memory of someone or something with a ceremony or object.
(transitive) To serve as a memorial to someone or something.
Synonyms
• memorialize
Source: Wiktionary
Com*mem"o*rate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Commemorated; p. pr. & vb. n. Commemorating.] Etym: [L. commemoratus, p. p. of commemorare to remember; com- + memorare to mention, fr. memor mindful. See Memory.]
Definition: To call to remembrance by a special act or observance; to celebrate with honor and solemnity; to honor, as a person or event, by some act of respect of affection, intended to preserve the remembrance of the person or event; as, to commemorate the sufferings and dying love of our Savior by the sacrament of the Lord's Supper; to commemorate the Declaration of Independence by the observance of the Fourth of July. We are called upon to commemorate a revolution. Atterbury.
Syn.
– See Celebrate.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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