Commemorate - Definition

commemorate

v 1: mark by some ceremony or observation; "The citizens mark
the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a
parade" [syn: commemorate, 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: commemorate, 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: commemorate,
memorialize, memorialise, immortalize, immortalise,
record]

Look up another word