Definition of commemorates Commemorates

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commemorates, verb, present, 3rd person singular of commemorate (infinitive).

Verb commemorates, commemorating, commemorated
commemorate - be or provide a memorial to a person or an event; "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"; "We memorialized the Dead"
		memorialize, memorialise, immortalize, immortalise, record
		remind put in the mind of someone; "Remind me to call Mother"
		monumentalise, monumentalize record or memorialize lastingly with a monument
commemorate - 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"
		remember
commemorate - mark by some ceremony or observation; "The citizens mark the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade"
		mark
		celebrate, observe, keep have a celebration; "They were feting the patriarch of the family"; "After the exam, the students were celebrating"

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commemorate (Verb)
To honour the memory of someone or something with a ceremony.
commemorate (Verb)
To serve as a memorial to someone or something.

commemorate (v. t.)
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.

commemorate
To keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony.

commemorate
kom-em′o-rāt, v.t. to call to remembrance by a solemn or public act: to celebrate: to preserve the memory of.—adj. Commem′orable.—n. Commemorā′tion, preserving the memory of some person or thing by a solemn ceremony: the specification of individual saints in the prayers for the dead: the great festival of the Oxford academic year, usually taking place on the third Wednesday after Trinity Sunday.—adjs. Commem′orative, Commem′oratory, tending or serving to commemorate.—n. Commem′orator. [L. commemoratus, pa.p. of commemorāre, to remember—com, inten., and memor, mindful.]