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Commemorate definitions
COMMEMORATE, v.t. To call to remembrance by a solemn act; 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 that person or event.
The Lords supper is designed to commemorate the sufferings and dying love of our Savior.
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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]
transitive verb (-rated; -rating) Etymology: Latin commemoratus, past participle of commemorare, from com- + memorare to remind of, from memor mindful — more at memory Date: 1599 1. to call to remembrance 2. to mark by some ceremony or observation ; observe <commemorate an anniversary> 3. to serve as a memorial of <a plaque that commemorates the battle> Synonyms: see keep • commemorator noun
v.tr. 1 celebrate in speech or writing. 2 a preserve in memory by some celebration. b (of a stone, plaque, etc.) be a memorial of. Derivatives: commemorative adj. commemorator n. Etymology: L commemorare (as COM-, memorare relate f. memor mindful)
Commemorate Com*mem"o*rate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Commemorated; p. pr. & vb. n. Commemorating.] [L. commemoratus, p. p. of commemorare to remember; com- + memorare to mention, fr. memor mindful. See Memory.] 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. We are called upon to commemorate a revolution. --Atterbury. Syn: See Celebrate.
(commemorates, commemorating, commemorated) To commemorate an important event or person means to remember them by means of a special action, ceremony, or specially created object. One room contained a gallery of paintings commemorating great moments in baseball history... = celebrate VERB: V n • commemoration (commemorations) ...the 50th Anniversary Commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. N-VAR: usu with supp
v. a. Celebrate, solemnize.
beat the drum, blow the trumpet, celebrate, consecrate, dedicate, dress ship, fire a salute, hallow, hold jubilee, honor, immortalize, jubilate, jubilize, keep, maffick, make merry, mark, memorialize, monument, monumentalize, observe, remember, revere, reverence, salute, sanctify, signalize, solemnize, solemnly mark, sound a fanfare, venerate
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