commemorate
To honour the memory of someone or something with a ceremony or object.
Example
“On November 11th we commemorate the fallen with a march.”
Other meanings
To serve as a memorial to someone or something.
“The cenotaph commemorates the fallen.”
Synonyms
- mark
Related words
- decommemorate
- uncommemorated
Word history
From Latin "commemorātus".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “commemorate” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.