About The Word Commemorate
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Commemorate
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What's The Definition Of Commemorate?
[v] 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"
[v] be or provide a memorial to a person or an event; "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"; "We memorialized the Dead" [v] mark by some ceremony or observation; "We marked the anniversary of his death" Synonyms | Synonyms for Commemorate: immortalise | immortalize | mark | memorialise | memorialize | record | remember Related Terms | Find terms related to Commemorate: beat the drum | blow the trumpet | celebrate | consecrate | dedicate | dress ship | fire a salute | hallow | hold jubilee | honor | immortalize | jubilate | jubilize | keep | maffick | make merry | mark | memorialize | monument | monumentalize | observe | remember | revere | reverence | salute | sanctify | signalize | solemnize | solemnly mark | sound a fanfare | venerate See Also | celebrate | keep | monumentalise | monumentalize | observe | remind Commemorate In Webster's Dictionary \Com*mem"o*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Commemorated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Commemorating}.] [L.
commemoratus, p. p. of commemorare to remember; com- +
memorare to mention, fr. memor mindful. See {Memory}.]
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.
We are called upon to commemorate a revolution.
--Atterbury.
Syn: See {Celebrate}.
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