Hypertext Webster Gateway: "commemorate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
We are called upon to commemorate a revolution.
--Atterbury.
Syn: See {Celebrate}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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 a memorial to a person or an event; "This sculpture
commemorates the victims of the concentration camps" [syn:
{memorialize}, {immortalize}, {immortalise}, {record}]
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