Commemorate
[kə'meməreɪt] or [kə'mɛməret]
Definition
(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'.
(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'.
(verb.) mark by some ceremony or observation; 'The citizens mark the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade'.
Checked by Bonnie--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Checked by Elaine
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Celebrate, solemnize.
Typed by Humphrey
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Perpetuate, celebrate, solemnize, keep
ANT:Ignore, drop, abolish, forget, obliviate
Editor: Robert
Definition
v.t. to call to remembrance by a solemn or public act: to celebrate: to preserve the memory of.—adj. Commem′orable.—n. Commemorā′tion preserving the memory of some person or thing by a solemn ceremony: the specification of individual saints in the prayers for the dead: the great festival of the Oxford academic year usually taking place on the third Wednesday after Trinity Sunday.—adjs. Commem′orative Commem′oratory tending or serving to commemorate.—n. Commem′orator.
Checker: Phelps
Examples
- This was the first commencement of my friendship with Adrian, and I must commemorate this day as the most fortunate of my life. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He even struck a medal and erected a column at Boulogne to commemorate the triumph of this projected invasion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was ready to go back to old times, and commemorate the contests of our fathers, and the monarch's abdication. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Adrian read it with deep interest; and found there that living spirit of genius and wit he had so often heard commemorated. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The auspicious event is always commemorated according to certain forms settled and prescribed by Mr. Bagnet some years since. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Recollections of happy trysts of lovers, commemorated in old ballads, returned on her mind; she thought such tryst in such scene would be blissful. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Among the oldest of these settlements was the colony of Virginia, the name of which commemorates Queen Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen of England. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Checker: Melva