English Dictionary
◊ COMMEMORATE
commemorate
v 1: mark by some ceremony or observation [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 a memorial to a person or an event; "This sculpture
commemorates the victims of the concentration camps" [syn:
{memorialize}, {immortalize}, {record}]