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commemorate meaning and definition
Definition and meaning of commemorate at MeaningMonkey.org. commemorate meaning and definition in the English Dictionary.COMMEMORATE verb
Definition of commemorate (verb)
- mark by some ceremony or observation
- "The citizens mark the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade"
- synonyms: mark
- 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"
- synonyms: remember
- be or provide a memorial to a person or an event
- "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"; "We memorialized the Dead"
- synonyms: immortalise, immortalize, memorialise, memorialize, record
Source: Princeton University Wordnet