HyperDic: commemorate

English > 3 senses of the word *commemorate*:
VERB	cognition	commemorate, mark	mark by some ceremony or observation
	cognition	commemorate, remember	call to remembrance
	cognition	commemorate, memorialize, memorialise, immortalize, immortalise	be or provide a memorial to a person or an event

commemorate > pronunciation
Sounds	kahmeh'merey.t
Rhymes	abate ... welterweight: 559 rhymes with eyt...

English > *commemorate*: 3 senses > verb 1, cognition
Meaning	mark by some ceremony or observation.
Pattern	Somebody ----s something
Synonym	mark
Broader	observe, celebrate, keep	Behave as expected during of holidays or rites
Spanish	conmemorar
Catalan	commemorar
Adjectives	commemorative	intended as a commemoration
Nouns	commemoration	a ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something

English > *commemorate*: 3 senses > verb 2, cognition
Meaning	Call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony.
Pattern	Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody
Synonym	remember
Spanish	conmemorar, rememorar
Catalan	commemorar, recordar, rememorar
Adjectives	commemorative	intended as a commemoration
Nouns	commemoration	a ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something

English > *commemorate*: 3 senses > verb 3, cognition
Meaning	Be or provide a memorial to a person or an event.
Pattern	Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something
Example	"This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"
Synonyms	memorialize, memorialise, immortalize, immortalise
Narrower	monumentalize, monumentalise	record or memorialize lastingly with a monument
Broader	remind	put in the mind of someone
Spanish	commemorar, conmemorar, grabar, inmortalizar
Catalan	commemorar, immortalitzar
Adjectives	commemorative	intended as a commemoration
Nouns	commemoration	a recognition of meritorious service

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