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Meaning of 'commemorate' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Commemorate [ v. t.]
- 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 or 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.

Meaning of 'commemorate' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . commemorate [ v]
Meaning (1):
- call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony
Example in sentence:
  • Remember the dead of the First World War;
  • We remembered the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
Meaning (2):
- celebrate by some ceremony or observation
Example in sentence:
  • The citizens mark the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade
Meaning (3):
- be or provide a memorial to a person or an event
Example in sentence:
  • This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps;
  • We memorialized the Dead

Nearby Words:

com- coma comanches comart comate comatose comatous comatula comatulid comb

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