COMMEMORATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does commemorate mean?
• COMMEMORATE (verb)
The verb COMMEMORATE has 3 senses:
1. mark by some ceremony or observation
2. call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony
3. be or provide a memorial to a person or an event
Familiarity information: COMMEMORATE used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• COMMEMORATE (verb)
Meaning:
Mark by some ceremony or observation
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
commemorate; mark
Context example:
We marked the anniversary of his death
Hypernyms (to "commemorate" is one way to...):
celebrate; keep; observe (celebrate, as of holidays or rites)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
commemorate; remember
Context examples:
We remembered the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz / Remember the dead of the First World War
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Meaning:
Be or provide a memorial to a person or an event
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
immortalise; immortalize; memorialize; memorialise; commemorate; record
Context examples:
This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps / We memorialized the Dead
Hypernyms (to "commemorate" is one way to...):
remind (put in the mind of someone)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "commemorate"):
monumentalise; monumentalize (record or memorialize lastingly with a monument)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
