commemorate
30 04 2009Verbs
1. (verb) commemorate, mark;
- mark by some ceremony or observation;
- “The citizens mark the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade”;
2. (verb) commemorate, remember;
- 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”;
3. (verb) commemorate, immortalise, immortalize, memorialise, memorialize, record;
- be or provide a memorial to a person or an event;
- “This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps”; “We memorialized the Dead”;