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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
commemorate
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
celebrate/commemorate/mark an event (=do something to show that you remember it)
▪ Fans observed a minute’s silence to commemorate the tragic event.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
anniversary
▪ Each commemorated a painful anniversary on the same day last week.
▪ And to commemorate their anniversary, the charity has opened a new office in Glasgow.
▪ The idea of making a special flower picture to commemorate a particular wedding anniversary works very well.
day
▪ It was a scream which one day they will commemorate with a plaque, and people will walk past it and remember.
▪ The day, commemorating the date Texas slaves first heard about the Emancipation Proclamation, is celebrated by blacks in Texas.
death
▪ Yet perhaps Thomas Hopkins and his wife took some solace in so commemorating the death of their eldest son.
event
▪ Nearly all Sir Walter's monuments of pride have disappeared, but enough remains to commemorate the great event.
▪ Erected in 1912, it commemorates a strange event in Zurich history.
▪ To commemorate the event in more permanent fashion, the Old Stopfordians' Association presented one hundred guineas to buy an organ.
plaque
▪ After the briefing our visitors were entertained to lunch and presented with a plaque to commemorate the visit.
▪ On the brown walls of corrugated metal a plaque commemorated it as the former home of James Fenimore Cooper.
▪ She officially unveiled a carved plaque to commemorate the centenary last year of the death of poet Richard Watson.
▪ The double plinth features a brass plaque commemorating the 1990 Restoration Project.
▪ The band presented the Company with a plaque commemorating their visit, together with a framed print displaying the regimental battle honours.
victory
▪ Cnut himself perhaps wanted to commemorate a great victory.
▪ He also instituted a festival called Delphinia to commemorate his victory.
▪ A lurid tattoo on his thigh commemorated his victory.
▪ Battle Abbey was founded by William to commemorate his victory and as a memorial to the fallen.
▪ The government did its best to rally public opinion behind the war effort by encouraging public celebrations to commemorate war victories.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ In the park, there is a plaque commemorating the town's 150th anniversary.
▪ The annual parade commemorates the soldiers who died in the two World Wars.
▪ The book will be published in October to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Morris's death.
▪ The Eid commemorates the prophet Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son at God's command.
▪ Vienna commemorated the 200th anniversary of Schubert's birth with a series of exhibitions and concerts.
▪ When a famous citizen died, he was commemorated by a statue or a plaque.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An imaginative programme of steam trains, listed below, was arranged to commemorate it.
▪ And Richard Hollins Murray set about creating cloisters to commemorate the links with the past.
▪ He also instituted a festival called Delphinia to commemorate his victory.
▪ Long Melford is one of the wool churches that commemorate the wealth of East Anglia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
▪ The shrines might have commemorated the creation of the palaces themselves.
▪ Throughout the years, celebrations have been held to commemorate Coronations, Jubilees, and Royal marriages.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Commemorate

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
commemorate

1590s, from Latin commemoratus, past participle of commemorare "bring to remembrance" (see commemoration). Related: Commemorated; commemorates; commemorating.

Wiktionary
commemorate

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To honour the memory of someone or something with a ceremony. 2 (context transitive English) To serve as a memorial to someone or something. 3 (context transitive English) (rfdef: English)

WordNet
commemorate
  1. v. mark by some ceremony or observation; "We marked the anniversary of his death" [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 or provide a memorial to a person or an event; "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"; "We memorialized the Dead" [syn: memorialize, memorialise, immortalize, immortalise, record]

Usage examples of "commemorate".

WITH 1826 marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, it was not long into the new year when Adams and Jefferson were being asked to attend a variety of celebrations planned to commemorate the historic event on the Fourth of July.

Miro and Albers and Stella and one that commemorated a Gwathmey-Siegel exhibit at the Boston Museum.

It was written as a repertory piece to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society and was the culmination of a three-year collaboration with the American composer Carl Davis, who had made three previous albums with the RLPO.

On the twenty-fourth, at a meeting in Amman to commemorate the first anniversary of the ACC, Saddam gave a long speech in which he said that as a result of the decline of the USSR, the Arab world needed to band together to oppose American and Israeli machinations.

On that day, an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 Shiites were gathered in the center of Nabatiya, celebrating the most important holiday in their calendar, Ashura, which commemorates the martyrdom, in A.

The most important of the latter are the column at Bewcastle, Cumberland, believed to commemorate Alhfrith, the son of Oswio, who died about 670, and the cross at Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire, which is probably about a century later.

A man in the wrong place at the wrong time, whose tragedy of circumstance would be commemorated most publicly through an endnote, centuries later, to a biography of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

Church, therefore the consecration of a church or of an altar is more fittingly commemorated.

The stadion is also a dwarven footrace that commemorates the combined Times of the reign of the first two kings.

That morning Gibbs looked like any other tourist whose reverence for Lincoln had brought him out early in the chill gray to the massive monument that commemorated the man.

Sanglant, son of Henry, into the ancient citadel of Quedlinhame at the head of his victorious army would be commemorated in poetry and song, Liath supposed, but no doubt the poets would sing of fine silken banners rippling in the breeze and gaily caparisoned horses prancing under the rein of their magnificently-garbed riders, a host splendid and brilliant beyond description, shining in the light of the sun.

But being arrived in this lonely place, where it was very improbable he should meet with any interruption, he suddenly slipped his garter from his leg, and, laying violent hands on the poor woman, endeavoured to perpetrate that dreadful and detestable fact which we have before commemorated, and which the providential appearance of Jones did so fortunately prevent.

Also, as a preliminary, we attended a feast, where one Taiara Tamarii, the son of an Hawaiian sailor who deserted from a whaleship, commemorated the death of his Marquesan mother by roasting fourteen whole hogs and inviting in the village.

It was traditional for Leors to commemorate special life events, such as the merging of mates, the birth of a child, or victory over an enemy, by hunting and capturing wild game, and making a sacrifice to the Goddess, at her altar.

It was only a hamlet, but it boasted the distinguished name of Turris Severi, after a local landmark, the stone tower erected by the Emperor Severus, more than two centuries before, to commemorate his victory over the outlander tribes called Quadi and Marcomanni.