0 present participle of commemorate --
1 to remember officially and give respect to a great person or event, especially by a public ceremony or by making a statue or special building: --
Items retained in the prison include treadmill planks, copper fire-fighting equipment and a complete "money tree" commemorating the original foundation.
Various non-governmental organisations have made representations about commemorating the 40th anniversary of the universal declaration.
It has certainly done justice to the 50th anniversary which we are commemorating this evening.
This morning we were commemorating here the 10th anniversary of the euro.
It is the years from 1939 to 1943 that we are commemorating.
Would not the best way of commemorating the dead be to look after their dependants?
The remembrance advertisements mourning and commemorating army personnel who meet their death prematurely in the battlefield contain certain hints which tell unmistakably about the person being mourned or remembered.
Rothfels's sentiments were widely echoed in contemporary press accounts commemorating the tenth anniversary of the end of the war.
