Commemoration Synonyms and Antonyms

kə-mĕmə-rāshən
The act of observing a day or an event with ceremonies
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. celebration
  2. observance
Something, as a structure or custom, serving to honor or keep alive a memory
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. remembrance
  2. memorial
  3. recognition
  4. monument
  5. memorialization
  6. observance
  7. memorialisation
Antonyms:
  1. dishonor
  2. neglect
  3. negligence
  4. unobservance
  5. forgetting

Words Related to Commemoration

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Commemoration Sentence Examples

  • On Easter day an altar was erected, mass celebrated in presence of the natives, the country declared an apanage of Portugal, and a stone cross erected in commemoration of the event.

  • It was instituted in 165 B.C. in commemoration of, and thanksgiving for, the purification of the temple at Jerusalem on this day by Judas Maccabaeus after its pollution by Antiochus Epiphanes, king of Syria, who in 168 B.C. set up a pagan altar to Zeus Olympius.

  • In the square is a statue of Peace, erected in commemoration of the peace of Campo Formio (1796), which lies 5 m.

  • He rejected the notion that the sacrament of the altar was a constantly renewed sacrifice, and held it to be merely a commemoration of the one sacrifice of Christ.

  • Perry, erected in commemoration of his victory on Lake Erie in 1813, is in Wade Park, where there is also a statue of Harvey Rice (1800-1891), who reformed the Ohio public school system and wrote Pioneers of the Western Reserve (1882) and Sketches of Western Life (1888).

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