Dictionary Definition
commemorate
Verb
1 mark by some ceremony or observation; "We
marked the anniversary of his death" [syn: mark]
2 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" [syn: remember]
3 be or provide a memorial to a person or an
event; "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the
concentration camps"; "We memorialized the Dead" [syn: memorialize, memorialise, immortalize, immortalise, record]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From Latin commemorare, from co- + memorare to remind of (see memory).Verb
Translations
to serve as memorial to someone or something
- German: erinnern an
Derived terms
Italian
Verb
commemorate- Form of Second-person plural imperative, commemorare#Italian|commemorare
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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