(v) mourn over a person's death, See Also: commemorate, mourn for, Example:นักเรียนไว้อาลัยวีรชนหน้าเสาธงเป็นเวลา 2 นาที, Thai Definition:แสดงความระลึกถึงเพราะมีใจผูกพันต่อผู้ที่จากไป
(v) call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony, Syn. remember, Example:We remembered the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz; Remember the dead of the First World War
(v) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event, Syn. immortalise, memorialize, record, memorialise, immortalize, Example:This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps; We memorialized the Dead
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53 Collaborative International Dictionary (GCIDE)
v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Commemorated; p. pr. & vb. n. Commemorating. ] [ L. commemoratus, p. p. of commemorare to remember; com- + memorare to mention, fr. memor mindful. See Memory. ] To call to remembrance by a special act or observance; to celebrate with honor and solemnity; to honor, as a person or event, by some act of respect or affection, intended to preserve the remembrance of the person or event; as, to commemorate the sufferings and dying love of our Savior by the sacrament of the Lord's Supper; to commemorate the Declaration of Independence by the observance of the Fourth of July. [ 1913 Webster ]
We are called upon to commemorate a revolution. Atterbury.