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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Commemorative

Commemorative \Com*mem"o*ra*tive\, n. something that commemorates, especially a postage stamp or coin having a design commemorating some event, person, institution, etc.

Commemorative

Commemorative \Com*mem"o*ra*tive\, a. Tending or intended to commemorate; as, a commemorative plaque. ``A sacrifice commemorative of Christ's offering up his body for us.''
--Hammond.

An inscription commemorative of his victory.
--Sir G. C. Lewis.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
commemorative

1610s, from commemorate + -ive. As a noun meaning "means of commemoration" it is recorded from 1630s; as short for commemorative postage stamp from 1916.

Wiktionary
commemorative

n. 1 an object made to commemorate a person, mark an event, etc. 2 (context philately English) a postage stamp issued to commemorate, usually a person or event; also commonly applied to thematic (topical) stamp issues

WordNet
commemorative

adj. intended as a commemoration; "a commemorative plaque" [syn: commemorating]

Wikipedia
Commemorative

Commemorative may refer to:

  • Commemorative coin
  • Commemorative stamp
  • Commemorative plaque
  • NYNEX Commemorative, a golf tournament
  • Commemorative Air Force, a Texas-based organization dedicated to preserving and showing historical aircraft

Usage examples of "commemorative".

These medals are highly prized by the veterans of the Fenian Raids, as they are commemorative of a time in the history of Canada which they will never forget.

Like all Elvis impersonators worth their Quaaludes and fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches, he chose to give homage to the jelly-bellied, sideburned, rhinestone-jumpsuited Elvis, the one who sadly lost the vote for the commemorative stamp.

Quartered in this dingy hatchment commemorative of Symond are the legal bearings of Mr. Vholes.

Transform, who had died in the Invasion, and apparently he worked hard for it, raising funds for commemorative projects and scholarships.

They glory in the crime, and have even struck a commemorative medal in its honour.

Right now they're getting ready to heave some august old chappy after eight solid days of memorial drinking, testimonial orgies, inheritance soirees, and commemorative gluttony.

He was president and organizer of a foundation to commemorate the university's Special Professor of Mathematics and Astrometaphysics, the discoverer of Carmody's Transform, who had died in the Invasion, and apparently he worked hard for it, raising funds for commemorative projects and scholarships.

With themes—one window held nothing but drinking vessels, from commemorative teacups to the small mended pottery anaphoras of an archaeological dig, while the next one had figurines from all over the world, all less than two inches in height.

They are small commemoratives that mark the acceptance into the Order of every mage ever to serve Tobyn-Ser.

People buy all the commemoratives as they come out, in whole sheets and tuck them away like an investment.

Among musical people there was a sudden vogue for Giles Revelstoke, much of it attributable to Stanhope Aspinwall, whose two commemorative articles, published on successive Sundays in the Argus, set off the enthusiasm of lesser men.

He was facially quite different from his father, whose pictures she could clearly remember adorning commemorative posters and prints during Resistance anniversaries.

It had much excited me, in its style, beauty and graphicness, and in its simple, unquestioned, unevasive public representation, albeit in a political and commemorative context, of natural biological relationships.

From 1991 to 1992, a team of scientists under the aegis of the Sir Peter Scott Commemorative Expedition to the Pitcairn Islands se: up abase camp on the north heach of Henderson Island-almost exacdv where the Essex survivors landed more than 170 years earlier.

A commemorative tablet was unveiled to him in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey on 17 June 1976.