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Meaning of commemorate

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  commemorate
      v 1: mark by some ceremony or observation; "The citizens mark
           the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a
           parade" [syn: {commemorate}, {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: {commemorate}, {remember}]
      3: be or provide a memorial to a person or an event; "This
         sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration
         camps"; "We memorialized the Dead" [syn: {commemorate},
         {memorialize}, {memorialise}, {immortalize}, {immortalise},
         {record}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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