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The definition of commemorative is something intended to act as a memorial or as an official expression of honoring a person or an event.

(adjective)

When someone has died and his family donates money in the deceased person's name to create a scholarship fund to honor the deceased, this is an example of a commemorative scholarship fund.

A commemorative is defined as a coin or other object that is made with the intent to honor or memorialize a person or an event.

(noun)

A coin with the face of Abraham Lincoln that is designed to honor Lincoln is an example of a commemorative.

See commemorative in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

serving to commemorate

also commemoratory

noun

anything that commemorates, as a stamp or coin that marks an event or honors a person, issued in limited quantities and for a limited time

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commemoratively adverb

See commemorative in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective

Honoring or preserving the memory of another.

noun

Something that honors or preserves the memory of another.

Related Forms:

com·memˈo·ra·tive·ly adverb

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