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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Commemorate \Com*mem"o*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Commemorated}; p. pr & vb n. {Commemorating}.] [L. commemoratus p. p. of commemorare to remember; com- + memorare to mention, fr memor mindful. See {Memory}.] To call to remembrance by a special act or observance; to celebrate with honor and solemnity; to honor, as a person or event, by some act of respect or affection, intended to preserve the remembrance of the person or event; as to commemorate the sufferings and dying love of our Savior by the sacrament of the Lord's Supper; to commemorate the Declaration of Independence by the observance of the Fourth of July. We are called upon to commemorate a revolution. --Atterbury. Syn: See {Celebrate}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: commemorate v 1: mark by some ceremony or observation [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 a memorial to a person or an event; "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps" [syn: {memorialize}, {immortalize}, {record}]
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