commemorate (v.)

  1. mark by some ceremony or observation; The citizens mark the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade

    [ Syn: 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: 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: memorialize , memorialise , immortalize , immortalise , record ]

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