commemorate
(verb)
verb
1. celebrate by some ceremony or observation
Similar word(s): mark
Definition categories: cognition, celebrate, keep, observe
2. call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony
Similar word(s): remember
Definition categories: cognition
3. be or provide a memorial to a person or an event
- This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps
Similar word(s): immortalise, immortalize, memorialise, memorialize
Definition categories: cognition, remind
Sentences with commemorate as a verb:
- On November 11th we commemorate the fallen with a march.
- The cenotaph commemorates the fallen.