Commemoration Definition

kə-mĕmə-rāshən
commemorations
noun
commemorations
The act of commemorating.
Webster's New World
A celebration in memory of someone or something.
Webster's New World
Something that honors or preserves the memory of another.
American Heritage
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Antonyms:
idiom
in commemoration of
  • in honor of the memory of
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Commemoration

Noun

Singular:
commemoration
Plural:
commemorations

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Commemoration

  • in commemoration of

Origin of Commemoration

  • commemorate +‎ -ion, from Old French commemoration (French: commémoration), from Latin commemorationem, verb commemorare.

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Commemoration Sentence Examples

  • On Easter day an altar was erected, mass celebrated in presence of the natives, the country declared an apanage of Portugal, and a stone cross erected in commemoration of the event.

  • It was instituted in 165 B.C. in commemoration of, and thanksgiving for, the purification of the temple at Jerusalem on this day by Judas Maccabaeus after its pollution by Antiochus Epiphanes, king of Syria, who in 168 B.C. set up a pagan altar to Zeus Olympius.

  • In the square is a statue of Peace, erected in commemoration of the peace of Campo Formio (1796), which lies 5 m.

  • He rejected the notion that the sacrament of the altar was a constantly renewed sacrifice, and held it to be merely a commemoration of the one sacrifice of Christ.

  • Perry, erected in commemoration of his victory on Lake Erie in 1813, is in Wade Park, where there is also a statue of Harvey Rice (1800-1891), who reformed the Ohio public school system and wrote Pioneers of the Western Reserve (1882) and Sketches of Western Life (1888).

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Words Starting With

CCOCOM

Words Ending With

NONION

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Words Starting With C and Ending With N

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