Found 3 items, similar to commemorate.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: commemorate
memperingati, merayakan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: commemorate
commemorate
v 1: 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]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: 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.
[1913 Webster]
We are called upon to commemorate a revolution.
--Atterbury.
Syn: See
Celebrate.
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