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  2. to remember officially and give respect to a great person or event, especially by a public ceremony or by making a statue or special building: Gathered all together in this church, we commemorate those who lost their lives in the war. A statue has been built to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the poet's birthday.

  3. keep, observe, celebrate, commemorate mean to notice or honor a day, occasion, or deed. keep stresses the idea of not neglecting or violating. kept the Sabbath by refraining from work. observe suggests marking the occasion by ceremonious performance. not all holidays are observed nationally.

  4. Commemorate definition: to serve as a memorial or reminder of. See examples of COMMEMORATE used in a sentence.

  5. 4 days ago · To commemorate an important event or person means to remember them by means of a special action, ceremony, or specially-created object. One room contained a gallery of paintings commemorating great moments in baseball history.

  6. To commemorate something means to remember something and by doing so to honor it, as in “We would like to commemorate his many years of past service by presenting him with this lovely gold watch.”

  7. 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.

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