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commemorate

com·me·mo·rate

UK/kəˈmɛməˌɹeɪt/ US/kʌˈmɛmɜrˌeɪt/ uncommon obsolete rare

verb

1.

mark by some ceremony or observation

  • “We marked the anniversary of his death”
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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”
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3.

be or provide a memorial to a person or an event

  • “This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps”
  • “We memorialized the Dead”
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Origin

First attested in 1599; borrowed from Latin commemorātus, perfect passive participle of commemorō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Sporadic usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.

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