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Another word for commemorate

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Verb

  1. To honor or keep alive the memory of

    See also:

    remember

  2. To mark (a day or an event) with ceremonies of respect, festivity, or rejoicing

    See also:

    remember

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Another word for commemorate

Verb
  1. See also:

    celebrate

    remember

    celebrate

    admire

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Sentence Examples

  • A monument was erected in 1901 to commemorate the Russians who fell.

  • A monument and a small museum commemorate the event.

  • was residing at Orvieto; and it was to commemorate this miracle that the existing cathedral was built.

  • From one point of view they shadow out the great epic of the destinies of the human race; again, the universal solar myth claims a share in them; hoary traditions were brought into ex post facto connexion with them; or they served to commemorate simple meteorological and astronomical facts.

  • June aoth was the fiftieth anniversary of her accession to the throne, and on the following day, for the second time in English history, a great Jubilee celebration was held to commemorate so happy an event.

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