Dictionary Entry
commemorate
commemorate is a 11-letter English word with 4 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
11 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 23 · 4 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
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.
- 2verb
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"
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- 3verb
be or provide a memorial to a person or an event
"This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"
"We memorialized the Dead"
- 4verb
mark by some ceremony or observation
"The citizens mark the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade"
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