Commemorate meaning

What does “commemorate” mean? Definitions, examples, synonyms and opposites.

“commemorate” is a verb with 3 meanings. Its most common meaning is: celebrate by some ceremony or observation.

commemorate

celebrate by some ceremony or observation
“The citizens mark the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade”
Synonymsmark
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”
Synonymsremember
be or provide a memorial to a person or an event
“This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps”
“We memorialized the Dead”
Synonymsmemorialize memorialise immortalize immortalise

Source: WordNet 3.1, Princeton University