Meaning & Definition of Commemorate in English

1. Mark by some ceremony or observation

• "The citizens mark the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade"

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"

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"