Overview of verb commemorate

The verb commemorate has 3 senses

• commemorate, mark -- (mark by some ceremony or observation; "The citizens mark the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade")


• commemorate, remember -- (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")


• commemorate, memorialize, memorialise, immortalize, immortalise, record -- (be or provide a memorial to a person or an event; "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"; "We memorialized the Dead")

Overview of adj commemorating

The adj commemorating has 1 sense

• commemorative, commemorating -- (intended as a commemoration; "a commemorative plaque")