What is another word for COMMEMORATE?
Synonyms for COMMEMORATE
kəˈmɛm əˌreɪtcom·mem·o·rate
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
commemorate
To celebrate any event or occasion is to make some demonstration of respect or rejoicing because of or in memory of it, or to perform such public rites or ceremonies as it properly demands. We celebrate the birth, commemorate the death of one beloved or honored. We celebrate a national anniversary with music and song, with firing of guns and ringing of bells; we commemorate by any solemn and thoughtful service, or by a monument or other enduring memorial. We keep the Sabbath, solemnize a marriage, observe an anniversary; we celebrate or observe the Lord's Supper in which believers commemorate the sufferings and death of Christ.
Synonyms:
celebrate, keep, observe, solemnizeAntonyms:
contemn, despise, dishonor, disregard, forget, ignore, neglect, overlook, profane, violatePreposition:
We celebrate the day with appropriate ceremonies; the victory was celebrated by the people, with rejoicing.
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Princeton's WordNet
commemorate, markverb
mark by some ceremony or observation
"The citizens mark the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade"
Synonyms:
distinguish, pit, note, mark, commemorate, pock, tick, nock, differentiate, strike out, notice, punctuate, score, brand, grade, record, immortalize, check off, cross off, memorialise, stigmatize, remember, strike off, mark off, stigmatise, denounce, tag, scar, immortalise, label, set, tick off, memorialize, cross out, checkcommemorate, rememberverb
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"
Synonyms:
recall, call back, recollect, immortalise, retrieve, record, mark, immortalize, remember, memorialise, memorialize, think, commemorate, call up, commend, think of, think backcommemorate, memorialize, memorialise, immortalize, immortalise, recordverb
be or provide a memorial to a person or an event
"This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"; "We memorialized the Dead"
Synonyms:
eternalize, enter, eternalise, record, put down, mark, immortalize, register, eternize, remember, memorialize, memorialise, commemorate, tape, read, immortalise, eternise, show
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "commemorate":
celebrate, commemoration, commemorating, mark, commemorative, memorial, commemorates, remembers, remember, remembrance, observe
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#180 | read | |
#189 | set | |
#268 | show | |
#272 | check | |
#325 | think | |
#460 | note | |
#465 | register | |
#656 | keep | |
#657 | enter | |
#689 | notice | |
#782 | record | |
#834 | mark | |
#974 | brand | |
#979 | remember | |
#1158 | score | |
#1518 | grade | |
#1971 | label | |
#2454 | tag | |
#2565 | tape | |
#3661 | memorial | |
#5370 | recall | |
#6691 | celebrate | |
#6977 | pit | |
#7591 | observe | |
#8514 | retrieve | |
#10269 | distinguish | |
#10852 | tick | |
#17028 | remembers | |
#17323 | scar | |
#17787 | differentiate | |
#18411 | remembrance | |
#21373 | commemorative | |
#25147 | commend | |
#27821 | commemorate | |
#33409 | commemoration | |
#38147 | perpetuate | |
#39206 | commemorating | |
#40292 | denounce | |
#53879 | commemorates | |
#56740 | recollect | |
#87603 | nock | |
#93647 | punctuate | |
#102955 | pock | |
#104162 | memorialize | |
#146615 | stigmatize | |
#175216 | immortalize | |
#238894 | solemnize | |
#321943 | stigmatise |
How to use COMMEMORATE in a sentence?
I've always said that Marsha was more recognized in New York City and around the world than she is in her own hometown, you have a hero, one of the greatest persons who did something in history and in your own hometown, and you have nothing there to commemorate the experience.
I wanted to make a big boat to commemorate her, maybe this is the biggest ship made from match sticks.
Realistically, due to statewide COVID-19 restrictions, we will not be able to have large groups of people indoors by the first weekend of March to hold our annual Barrel Tasting event, however, we still wanted to commemorate the weekend that has been a 44-year tradition in Sonoma County by having our member wineries unite to offer visitors something special – in this case – rare library wines.
Remember, thousands of British servicemen died in the Second World War in Asia and it's right that we commemorate that.
Our goal is to remember history, commemorate the martyrs, cherish peace and look to the future, we will extend the invitation to the leaders of all relevant countries and international organizations. No matter who it is, as long as they come in sincerity, we welcome them.
Translations for COMMEMORATE
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- отбелязвам годишнина, напомнямBulgarian
- gedenkenGerman
- به یاد بیاوریدPersian
- muistellaFinnish
- commémorerFrench
- conmemorarGalician
- megemlékez, emlékét őrziHungarian
- ոգեկոչելArmenian
- memperingatiIndonesian
- commemorareItalian
- بیرهوهریی کردنKurdish
- whakamaharaMāori
- comemorarPortuguese
- чтить, почти́ть, ознамено́вывать, ознаменова́тьRussian
- நினைவாகTamil
- kỷ niệmVietnamese
- 纪念Chinese
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