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commemorate 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/kəˈmeməˌrāt/,
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commemorating, present participle; commemorated, past participle; commemorates, 3rd person singular present; commemorated, past tense;
  1. Recall and show respect for (someone or something) in a ceremony
    • - a wreath-laying ceremony to commemorate the war dead
  2. Serve as a memorial to
    • - a stone commemorating a boy who died at sea
  3. Mark (a significant event)
    • - the City of Boston commemorated the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America
  4. Celebrate (an event, a person, or a situation) by doing or building something
    • - it was a night commemorated in a song
  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"
  4. (commemoration) memorial: a recognition of meritorious service
  5. (commemorative) an object (such as a coin or postage stamp) made to mark an event or honor a person
  6. (Commemoration (observance)) Commemorations are a type of religious observance in the Church of England. They are the least significant type of observance, the others being Principal Feasts, Principal Holy Days, Festivals, and Lesser Festivals. ...
  7. (Commemoration (prayer)) In the Tridentine Mass period of the Roman Rite, when a higher-ranked liturgical celebration impeded the celebration of a lesser that, either permanently or (in a particular year) by coincidence, fell on the same day, the prayer of the lower-ranked celebration was ...
  8. (5. Commemoration) Once the body was buried or cremated, the deceased still had to be remembered. The Roman state set apart certain days each year to remember loved ones, including the Parentalia, held from February 13 to 21, to honor the family's ancestors. ...
  9. (Commemoration (in Liturgy)) The recital of a part of the Office or
  10. (Commemoration) (CD, White Devil Records, 1994). Released to commemorate Manson's 60th birthday and "sixty years of struggle against cowardice, stupidity and lies".
  11. (commemoration) (in  Bannockburn (Scotland, United Kingdom))
  12. (Commemorative) A stamp printed in a limited quantity and available for purchase for a limited time. The design may note an anniversary associated with an individual, an historic event, or a national landmark. See also Definitive.
  13. (commemorative) A coin with a design honoring a person, place or event in history.
  14. A commemorative is generally issued by casinos in order to celebrate an event, person, topic or anything else. Most of these are issued in only small quantities.
  15. (commemorative) a special coin or medal issued to honor an outstanding person, place or event.
  16. (Commemorative) A merchandise keepsake used to mark a ceremony, anniversary, event or milestone.
  17. (Commemorative) In general philatelic terms, a stamp issued for a limited time and limited quantity to honour a certain person, event, anniversary or group. For marcophilists, a postmark commemorates a particular event.
  18. (Commemorative) A coin issued by either a government or private mint celebrating or recognizing history, people, places or cultures. They may or may not be legal tender. In either case, they are mostly prized for their beauty and precious metal content.
  19. (Commemorative) A souvenir pin that is authorized by the Organizing Committee for those particular games.
  20. (Commemorative) As the name implies, these are posters printed to commemorate an anniversary or the like. In the case of Star Wars, Kilian Enterprises printed up many 10- and 15-year anniversary posters for the classic trilogy during the late 1980s and '90s. ...
  21. (Commemorative) In firearms parlance, a gun that was manufactured in "limited" numbers (often into the thousands), marked, stamped or fitted with extra bells and whistles in such a way as to evoke reverence to some famous person, place or historical event. ...
  22. (commemorative) A stamp, usually of large format, which is issued to salute or honor a person, event, state, organization, place, etc. Typically issued on an anniversary in a multiple of 10, 50, 100 years, etc. and produced in limited quantities. Contrasted with "definitive." [Back to top]
  23. (commemorative) Anything that honors the memory of a departed person or past event. See: shraddha.
  24. (commemorative) a coin or bill made in memory of historical events.
  25. to preserve in memory by a celebration or ceremony