commemorate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: commemorate	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for commemorate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
commemorate v mark by some ceremony or observation; "The citizens mark the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade" Synonym(s): commemorate, mark 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" Synonym(s): commemorate, remember be or provide a memorial to a person or an event; "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"; "We memorialized the Dead" Synonym(s): commemorate, memorialize, memorialise, immortalize, immortalise, record
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Commemorate \Commem"orate\, 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}.