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Definition
mark by some ceremony or observation — especially the memory of something- We should have a holiday to commemorate her birth.
commemorate = mark by some ceremony or observation
- This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps
- It commemorates the disaster that put our town smack on the front page of the Boston and New York tabloids.Louise Erdrich -- The Leap
- 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.Ambrose Bierce -- A Horseman in the Sky
- Nothing commemorates the site, only rubble and faded signs in overgrown thickets where hundreds of men once toiled and sometimes died.Homer Hickam -- October Sky
- The claim was made in an AMI pamphlet commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of The Jungle's publication.Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
- The engineer corps was working on a new arch that would commemorate the victory over Polybotes.Rick Riordan -- The Son of Neptune
- Dad smiles and says, "I just thought you should have something to commemorate this special day."Melody Carlson -- Becoming Me
- Apparently teleportation was such a rare ability that there was no official gemstone or token to commemorate it.Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
- I am not ashamed of commemorating old Kester.George Eliot -- Adam Bede
- At one end is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, commemorating the Revolutionary War dead buried there.Laurie Halse Anderson -- Fever, 1793
- Like the pyramids and the ruins of Maya, they will commemorate an erroneous development of human genius.Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
- If you don't want that, you don't go to high school reunions, you don't go to the thirty-fifth commemoration of the worst year of your life.Judy Blume -- In the Unlikely Event
- "Yes, there's a meeting of the Society of Amateurs today in commemoration of the jubilee of Svintitch," said Katavasov in answer to Levin's inquiry.Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
- The Bradleys with commemorative plaque atop Mount Suribachi, April 1998.James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
- But it commemorates an important day in our family: my sister's graduation, my rape trial.Alice Sebold -- Lucky
- I invented the laurel wreath to commemorate my failure—to punish myself for the fate of my greatest love.Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle
- The last thing they needed was another quest to find another god who would probably demand his own commemorative T-shirt or Valdezinator.Rick Riordan -- The Blood of Olympus
- Quartered in this dingy hatchment commemorative of Symond are the legal bearings of Mr. Vholes.Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
- A few minutes later she came out in Waterland flower-print shorts, a big red Waterland T-shirt, and commemorative Waterland surf shoes.Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief
commemorates = honors the memory of
commemorates = marks by some ceremony or observation
commemorate = mark by some ceremony or observation
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)