Verb: commemorate ku'me-mu,reyt
- Call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony
"We commemorated the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz";
- remember
- Celebrate by some ceremony or observation
"The citizens commemorate the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade";
- mark
- Be or provide a memorial to a person or an event
"This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps";
- memorialize, memorialise [Brit], immortalize, immortalise [Brit]
Derived forms: commemorated, commemorates, commemorating