commemorate

/kəmˈɛməɹˌe‍ɪt/

/kəˈmɛmɝˌeɪt/

to commemorate

MAIN VERB

to recall someone or something in the past by doing something special

synonyms : mark

to recall and show respect for an important person, event, etc. from the past with an action or in a ceremony

synonyms : remember

be or provide a memorial to a person or an event

Examples

1. COMMEMORATING THE 100th ANNIVERSARY OF THE END OF WORLD WAR

2. Monument to your left and the painting on this panel commemorate their battle.

3. The hammered-copper cross commemorates the massacre of the Czar and his family in 1918.

4. In Kensington Gardens, a statue forever commemorates its most famous fictional resident, Peter Pan.