'Commemorate' definitions:
Definition of 'commemorate'
(from WordNet)
verb
Mark by some ceremony or observation; "The citizens mark the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade" [syn: commemorate, mark]
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" [syn: commemorate, remember]
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" [syn: commemorate, memorialize, memorialise, immortalize, immortalise, record]
Definition of 'Commemorate'
From: GCIDE
- Commemorate \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. [1913 Webster]
- We are called upon to commemorate a revolution. --Atterbury.
- Syn: See Celebrate. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'commemorate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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