Associations to the word «Commemorate»

Wiktionary

COMMEMORATE, verb. (transitive) To honour the memory of someone or something with a ceremony or object.
COMMEMORATE, verb. (transitive) To serve as a memorial to someone or something.

Dictionary definition

COMMEMORATE, verb. Mark by some ceremony or observation; "The citizens mark the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade".
COMMEMORATE, verb. 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".
COMMEMORATE, verb. Be or provide a memorial to a person or an event; "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"; "We memorialized the Dead".

Wise words

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
Leo Tolstoy