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1. Mark by some ceremony or observation
   "The citizens commemorate the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade"
   - mark
    
2. Call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony
   "We commemorated the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz"
   - remember
    
3. Be or provide a memorial to a person or an event
   "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"
   - memorialize, memorialise [Brit], immortalize, immortalise [Brit], record

Derived forms: commemorates, commemorating, commemorated

See also: commemoration, commemorative

Type of: celebrate, keep, observe, remind