Commemorate
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To call to remembrance by a special act or observance; tocelebrate with honor and solemnity; to honor, as a person or event,by some act of respect of affection, intended to preserve theremembrance of the person or event; as, to commemorate the sufferingsand dying love of our Savior by the sacrament of the Lord's Supper;to commemorate the Declaration of Independence by the observance ofthe Fourth of July.We are called upon to commemorate a revolution. Atterbury.
Commemorate meaning & definition 1 of Commemorate.
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recall and show respect for
Commemorate meaning & definition 2 of Commemorate.
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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:
Commemorate meaning & definition 3 of Commemorate.