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commemorate

verb

1 commemorate

Celebrate by some ceremony or observation.

synonym: mark.

Roget 883: celebrate keep, signalize, do honor to, commemorate, solemnize, hallow, mark with a red letter.    pledge, drink to, toast, hob and nob.    inaugurate, install, ... show more

Roget 551: record; put on record, place on record; chronicle, calendar, hand down to posterity; keep up the memory etc. (remember) 505; commemorate etc. (celebrate) ... show more

2 commemorate

Call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony.

synonym: remember.

Roget 505: remember, mind; retain the memory of, retain the remembrance of; keep in view.    recognize, recollect, bethink oneself, recall, call up, retrace; look back, trace back, ... show more

3 commemorate

Be or provide a memorial to a person or an event:
— This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps.

synonyms: immortalise, immortalize, memorialise, memorialize.


Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.

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