commemorate
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
mark by some ceremony or observation
The citizens mark the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade
Types & categories
- celebrate hypernym
Related & opposite
- commemoration derivation
- commemorative derivation
Sense 2 verb
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
Related & opposite
- recollection derivation
- commemoration derivation
- commemorative derivation
Sense 3 verb
be or provide a memorial to a person or an event
This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps
Types & categories
- remind hypernym
- monumentalize hyponym
Related & opposite
- monument derivation
- record derivation
- memorial derivation
- commemorative derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | commemoration |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | commemorative |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | celebrate |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | recollection |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | commemoration |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | commemorative |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | monument |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | record |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | memorial |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | commemorative |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | remind |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | monumentalize |