Definition: commemorate

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

commemorate
     v 1: mark by some ceremony or observation; "We marked the
          anniversary of his death" [syn: mark]
     2: 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" [syn: remember]
     3: be a memorial to a person or an event; "This sculpture
        commemorates the victims of the concentration camps" [syn:
         memorialize, immortalize, immortalise, record]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Commemorate \Com*mem"o*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   Commemorated; p. pr. & vb. n. Commemorating.] [L.
   commemoratus, p. p. of commemorare to remember; com- +
   memorare to mention, fr. memor mindful. See Memory.]
   To call to remembrance by a special act or observance; to
   celebrate with honor and solemnity; to honor, as a person or
   event, by some act of respect or affection, intended to
   preserve the remembrance of the person or event; as, to
   commemorate the sufferings and dying love of our Savior by
   the sacrament of the Lord's Supper; to commemorate the
   Declaration of Independence by the observance of the Fourth
   of July.

         We are called upon to commemorate a revolution.
                                                  --Atterbury.

   Syn: See Celebrate.