commemorate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To honor and remember an important person or event, often with a ceremony.

   On November 11th we commemorate the soldiers who died in the war.

2. 2
   verb

   To exist as a way of remembering a person or event.

   This statue commemorates the victims of the war.

First attested in 1599; borrowed from Latin commemorātus, perfect passive participle of commemorō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Sporadic usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.

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