commemorate

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com·mem·o·rate

(kə-mĕm′ə-rāt′)

tr.v. com·mem·o·rat·ed, com·mem·o·rat·ing, com·mem·o·rates

1. To honor the memory of (a person or event, for example), especially with a ceremony. See Synonyms at observe.

2. To serve as a memorial to: The statue commemorates the discovery of anesthesia.

[Latin commemorāre, commemorāt-, to remind : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + memorāre, to remind (from memor, mindful; see (s)mer- in Indo-European roots).]

com·mem′o·ra′tor n.

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commemorate

(kəˈmɛməˌreɪt)

(tr) to honour or keep alive the memory of

[C16: from Latin commemorāre be mindful of, from com- (intensive) + memorāre to remind, from memor mindful]

comˈmemorative, comˈmemoratory adj

comˈmemoratively adv

comˈmemoˌrator n

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com•mem•o•rate

(kəˈmɛm əˌreɪt)

v.t. -rat•ed, -rat•ing.

1. to serve as a memorial or reminder of: The monument commemorates a naval victory.

2. to honor the memory of by some observance: to commemorate Bastille Day.

[1590–1600; < Latin commemorātus <com- + memorāre to mention <memor mindful]

com•mem′o•ra`tor, n.

commemorate

Past participle: commemorated
Gerund: commemorating

Imperative
commemorate
commemorate

Present
I commemorate
you commemorate
he/she/it commemorates
we commemorate
you commemorate
they commemorate

Preterite
I commemorated
you commemorated
he/she/it commemorated
we commemorated
you commemorated
they commemorated

Present Continuous
I am commemorating
you are commemorating
he/she/it is commemorating
we are commemorating
you are commemorating
they are commemorating

Present Perfect
I have commemorated
you have commemorated
he/she/it has commemorated
we have commemorated
you have commemorated
they have commemorated

Past Continuous
I was commemorating
you were commemorating
he/she/it was commemorating
we were commemorating
you were commemorating
they were commemorating

Past Perfect
I had commemorated
you had commemorated
he/she/it had commemorated
we had commemorated
you had commemorated
they had commemorated

Future
I will commemorate
you will commemorate
he/she/it will commemorate
we will commemorate
you will commemorate
they will commemorate

Future Perfect
I will have commemorated
you will have commemorated
he/she/it will have commemorated
we will have commemorated
you will have commemorated
they will have commemorated

Future Continuous
I will be commemorating
you will be commemorating
he/she/it will be commemorating
we will be commemorating
you will be commemorating
they will be commemorating

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been commemorating
you have been commemorating
he/she/it has been commemorating
we have been commemorating
you have been commemorating
they have been commemorating

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been commemorating
you will have been commemorating
he/she/it will have been commemorating
we will have been commemorating
you will have been commemorating
they will have been commemorating

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been commemorating
you had been commemorating
he/she/it had been commemorating
we had been commemorating
you had been commemorating
they had been commemorating

Conditional
I would commemorate
you would commemorate
he/she/it would commemorate
we would commemorate
you would commemorate
they would commemorate

Past Conditional
I would have commemorated
you would have commemorated
he/she/it would have commemorated
we would have commemorated
you would have commemorated
they would have commemorated

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Verb	1.	commemorate - mark by some ceremony or observation; "The citizens mark the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade" mark celebrate, observe, keep - behave as expected during of holidays or rites; "Keep the commandments"; "celebrate Christmas"; "Observe Yom Kippur"
	2.	commemorate - 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" remember
	3.	commemorate - be or provide a memorial to a person or an event; "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"; "We memorialized the Dead" immortalise, immortalize, memorialise, memorialize, record remind - put in the mind of someone; "Remind me to call Mother" monumentalise, monumentalize - record or memorialize lastingly with a monument

commemorate

verb celebrate, remember, honour, recognize, salute, pay tribute to, immortalize, memorialize a gallery of paintings commemorating great moments in baseball history
celebrate forget, ignore, overlook, omit, disregard, pass over, take no notice of

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commemorate

verb

1. To honor or keep alive the memory of:

memorialize.

2. To mark (a day or an event) with ceremonies of respect, festivity, or rejoicing:

celebrate, keep, observe, solemnize.

Translations

يَحْتَفِل بِذِكْرىيُحْيي ذِكْرى، يكونُ تِذْكارا لِ

připomínatuctívat

mindes

erinnern gedenken

conmemorar

célébrer commémorer

megemlékezik

minnastvera til minningar um

commemorare commemorativo commemorazione rimembrare

atminimominėtipaminėjimaspaminėti

atzīmētpieminētsvinēt

feire minnes være til minne om

anısını yaşatmakanmak

庆祝纪念

commemorate

[kəˈmeməreɪt] VT → conmemorar

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commemorate

[kəˈmɛmreɪt] vt [+ event, person] → commémorer

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commemorate

vt → gedenken (+gen); a festival to commemorate the event → eine Feier zum Gedenken an das Ereignis

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commemorate

[kəˈmɛməreɪt] vt → commemorare

commemorate

(kəˈmeməreit) verb

1. (of people) to honour the memory of (someone) by a solemn celebration. Once a year we commemorate his death in action by visiting his widow.

2. (of things) to serve as a memorial to (someone or something). This inscription commemorates those who died.

comˈmemorative (-tiv) adjective

comˌmemorˈation noun

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And on that day, of which you now commemorate the fiftieth anniversary--on that thirtieth day of April, 1789--was this mighty revolution, not only in the affairs of our own country, but in the principles of government over civilized man, accomplished.

It is your peculiar privilege to commemorate, in this birthday of your nation, an event ascertained in its minutest details; an event of which the principal actors are known to you familiarly, as if belonging to your own age; an event of a magnitude before which imagination shrinks at the imperfection of her powers.

These, in the accomplishment of your undertaking, you were summoned to encounter in their most hideous forms; these you met with that fortitude, and combated with that perseverance, which you had promised in their anticipation; these you completely vanquished in establishing the foundations of New England, and the day which we now commemorate is the perpetual memorial of your triumph.

Preserve in all their purity, refine, if possible, from all their alloy, those virtues which we this day commemorate as the ornament of our forefathers.

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So a great Frankish victory or defeat was gained or avoided; and in order to commemorate the episode, Charlemagne commanded a city to be built there, which he named Frankfort--the ford of the Franks.

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Sparsit, with her Roman features like a medal struck to commemorate her scorn of Mr.

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For an instant Druse had a strange, half-defined feeling that he had slept to the end of the war and was looking upon a noble work of art reared upon that commanding eminence to commemorate the deeds of an heroic past of which he had been an inglorious part.

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THIS is not the place to commemorate the trials and privations endured by the immigrant Mormons before they came to their final haven.

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Every month they commemorate the assumption of the Virgin Mary, and are of opinion that no Christians beside themselves have a true sense of the greatness of the mother of God, or pay her the honours that are due to her.

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Five years later, in the twilight of an April morning, he stood on the green, beside the meeting-house, at Lexington, where now the obelisk of granite, with a slab of slate inlaid, commemorates the first fallen of the Revolutions.

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If we wanted to conceal the noble action this purse commemorates, we should not expose it thus to view.