Synonyms for commemorate
kəˈmɛm əˌreɪtcom·mem·o·rate

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1. 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, solemnize

   Antonyms:
   contemn, despise, dishonor, disregard, forget, ignore, neglect, overlook, profane, violate

   Preposition:
   We celebrate the day with appropriate ceremonies; the victory was celebrated by the people, with rejoicing.

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1. commemorate

   Synonyms:
   perpetuate, celebrate, solemnize, keep

   Antonyms:
   ignore, drop, abolish, forget, obliviate

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1. 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, 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, check

2. commemorate, 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, call up, commend, think of, think back

3. commemorate, 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, tape, read, immortalise, eternise, show

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1. commemorateverb

   Synonyms:
   celebrate, solemnize

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1. List of paraphrases for "commemorate":

   celebrate, commemoration, commemorating, mark, commemorative, memorial, commemorates, remembers, remember, remembrance, observe

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1. Poland Janusz Urbanski:

   I wanted to make a big boat to commemorate her, maybe this is the biggest ship made from match sticks.

2. Krzysztof Suchowierski:

   We cycled 76 days in winter through severely cold Yakutia to commemorate the victims of Soviet repression.

3. Philip Hammond:

   Remember, thousands of British servicemen died in the Second World War in Asia and it's right that we commemorate that.

4. Ilya Somin:

   Some cemeteries could be good places for these monuments because there they are just meant to commemorate the dead and not honor an unjust cause, there are cemeteries in Germany where the dead from World War I and World War are buried and there is more about remembering those who died while not harkening back to the cause.

5. Gus Papathanasiou:

   Officer Sicknick died because Officer Sicknick put the lives of Members of Congress and their staff before Officer Sicknick own safety -- Officer Sicknick did Officer Sicknick duty, we should commemorate Officer Sicknick life and service with respect and dignity.