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Pronunciation: [kəmˈɛməɹˌe͡ɪt] (IPA)

Commemorate is a verb that refers to the act of remembering or honoring someone or something. Synonyms for commemorate include celebrate, honor, remember, memorialize, observe, mark, pay tribute to, recollect, and pay homage. Celebrate implies an expression of joy or happiness, whereas honor implies respect and admiration. Remember can imply simply recalling something from the past, while memorialize specifically refers to honoring the memory of someone who has passed away. Observe can refer to marking a specific holiday or event, while mark is more general. Pay tribute to implies acknowledging and praising someone or something, while recollect suggests bringing back memories of the past. Pay homage refers to showing respect and admiration towards someone or something.

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Antonyms are words that are opposite in meaning to each other. The word 'commemorate' means to honor, celebrate or remember an event or a person. So, the antonyms for commemorate would be words that are related to forgetfulness or neglect. Some examples of antonyms for commemorate include 'ignore,' 'neglect,' 'abandon,' 'overlook', or 'dismiss'. When we ignore or neglect, we tend to forget the importance of a particular event or person, and it fades into oblivion. These antonyms remind us that it is crucial to remember and honor important events and people in our lives, and not to dismiss or overlook their significance.

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Usage examples for Commemorate

The first named is specially noticeable, and was built to commemorate the victorious return of the Russian troops in 1815. The arch is supported by lofty metal columns, and surmounted by a triumphal car drawn by six bronze horses, which have never made a journey abroad like those in the piazza of St. Mark.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
Begun in 1812 to commemorate the deliverance of Moscow from the French, the edifice has but just been completed.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
The medals to which so much virtue is ascribed are merely the medals struck to commemorate the Emancipation of the Serfs; but the "medalmen," who are generally men that have parted with their land, sold their houses, and settled at the mines, pay very high prices for one of these medals, wear it constantly about their necks, and think it will secure them a genuine respite from the burden of taxation they have to bear.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae

Famous quotes with Commemorate

  • My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.
    Phyllis Diller
  • It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans.
    Eliot Engel
  • Last week, the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11, we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.
    Michael McCaul
  • Well, I didn't ever think about Australia much. To me Australia had never been very interesting, it was just something that happened in the background. It was Neighbours and Crocodile Dundee movies and things that never really registered with me and I didn't pay any attention to it at all. I went out there in 1992, as I was invited to the Melbourne Writers Festival, and I got there and realised almost immediately that this was a really really interesting country and I knew absolutely nothing about it. As I say in the book, the thing that really struck me was that they had this prime minister who disappeared in 1967, Harold Holt and I had never heard about this. I should perhaps tell you because a lot of other people haven't either. In 1967 Harold Holt was prime minister and he was walking along a beach in Victoria just before Christmas and decided impulsively to go for a swim and dove into the water and swam about 100 feet out and vanished underneath the waves, presumably pulled under by the ferocious undertow or rips as they are called, that are a feature of so much of the Australian coastline. In any case, his body was never found. Two things about that amazed me. The first is that a country could just lose a prime minister — that struck me as a really quite special thing to do — and the second was that I had never heard of this. I could not recall ever having heard of this. I was sixteen years old in 1967. I should have known about it and I just realised that there were all these things about Australia that I had never heard about that were actually very very interesting. The more I looked into it, the more I realised that it is a fascinating place. The thing that really endeared Australia to me about Harold Holt's disappearance was not his tragic drowning, but when I learned that about a year after he disappeared the City of Melbourne, his home town, decided to commemorate him in some appropriate way and named a municipal swimming pool after him. I just thought: this is a great country.
    Bill Bryson
  • Dinner at the "Continental" to commemorate the great reform [the abolition of the serfdom in 1861]. Tedious and incongruous. To dine, drink champagne, make a racket, and deliver speeches about national consciousness, the conscience of the people, freedom, and such things, while slaves in tail-coats are running round your tables, veritable serfs, and your coachmen wait outside in the street, in the bitter cold—that is lying to the Holy Ghost.
    Anton Chekhov

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