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Definition of Commemorate

1. Verb. Mark by some ceremony or observation. "The citizens mark the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade"

2. Verb. Call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony. "Remember the dead of the First World War"

3. Verb. Be or provide a memorial to a person or an event. "We memorialized the Dead"

Definition of Commemorate

1. v. t. 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.

Definition of Commemorate

1. Verb. (transitive) To honour the memory of someone or something with a ceremony. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To serve as a memorial to someone or something. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Commemorate

1. [v -RATED, -RATING, -RATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Commemorate

commaundest commaundeth commaundment commaunds comme ci comme ça comme il faut commeasurable commeasure commeasured commeasures

commeasuring commedia dell'arte commelina commemorabilia commemorable commemorate (current term) commemorated commemorates commemorating commemoration

commemorations commemorative commemorative sign commemoratively commemoratives commemorator commemorators commemoratory commemorial commence

Literary usage of Commemorate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1881)
"These great works she was not backward to commemorate. Most of her erections horc, ... as Christians, we commemorate the ..."

2. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1887)
"It consequently was erected to mark some sacred spot or to commemorate some event, and we have no reason to believe that this was done anywhere before ..."

3. Palmer's Index to "The Times" NewspaperTimes (London, England) (1877)
"... Two Officers only left to commemorate, 3 n 6 а n 6rf Anthracite Coal Question for the Navy, 22 • Arms and Ammunition, 9 it 4 с —— Army Pay Department, ..."

4. Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts by Colonial Society of Massachusetts (1895)
"A general discussion of the subject of forming a Society to commemorate the Founders of New England ensued, which was participated in by all the gentlemen ..."

5. The Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society by American-Irish Historical Society (1914)
"The banquet held to commemorate the unveiling and dedication of the monument to Commodore John Barry, ' 'Father of the American Navy," held at the New ..."

6. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1900)
"In 1670 the corporation of London determined to commemorate this action by having the portraits of all the judges, twenty- two in number, painted to be hung ..."

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