commemorate

Verb
Synonyms: markremembermemorializememorialiseimmortalizeimmortaliserecord

WordNet 3.0

Verb (3)

  1. mark by some ceremony or observation“The citizens mark the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade”Synonyms: 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”Synonyms: 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”Synonyms: memorializememorialiseimmortalizeimmortaliserecord
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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. [1913 Webster]

We are called upon to commemorate a revolution. --Atterbury.

Syn: See Celebrate. [1913 Webster]

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