commemorate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to call to remembrance

   We commemorated the battle with a plaque.

2. 2
   verb

   to be or provide a memorial to a person or an event

   This sculpture commemorates the victims of the war.

3. 3
   verb

   To honour the memory of someone or something with a ceremony or object.

   On November 11th we commemorate the fallen with a march.

4. 4
   verb

   To serve as a memorial to someone or something.

   The cenotaph commemorates the fallen.

5. 5
   adj

   Commemorated.

   In almost all the Psalms of praise, we find the preceding distress and afflictions […] first pathetically commemorat.

6. 6
   verb

   to mark by some ceremony or observation

Etymology

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.