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commemorate

/kəˈmɛməˌɹeɪt/verb4 syllables

Commemorate means: be or provide a memorial to a person or an event.

Synonyms for commemorate6

verb, as in be or provide a memorial to a person or an event

memorialize, memorialise, immortalize, immortalise

verb, as in celebrate by some ceremony or observation

mark

verb, as in call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony

remember

What does commemorate mean?3

verb

1

be or provide a memorial to a person or an event“This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps”

2

celebrate by some ceremony or observation“The citizens mark the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade”

3

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”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Commemorate in a sentence

  • Jews don't celebrate the holocaust, they commemorate it.BRyeO12
  • They were erected to commemorate a certain event or to tell an ancestral legend.Lumi_alt
  • They erected a statue in the park to commemorate the fallen of both wars.sundown
  • A statue was erected in the park to commemorate the fallen of both wars.sundown
  • The children commemorate the centenary of the armistice.tjwhale
  • Today we commemorate the defeat of the military regime.kiryopi
  • Friends and family gathered to commemorate Yanni's life.Amastan
  • Who will commemorate me when I die?TrioLinguist

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of commemorate

as a verb

past tense
commemorated
present participle
commemorating
third-person singular
commemorates
past participle
commemorated