commemoration
Meaning
- (countable, uncountable) The act of commemorating; an observance or celebration to honor the memory of some person or event.
- (countable, uncountable) That which serves the purpose of commemorating; a memorial.
- (countable, uncountable) The specification of individual saints in the prayers for the dead.
- (UK, countable, uncountable) The great festival of the Oxford academic year, usually taking place on the third Wednesday after Trinity Sunday.
Synonyms
Commemoration Day
yearly celebration
funeral banquet
Remembrance Service
Translations
commémoration
conmemoración
commemorazione
comemoração
anma
commemoració
herdenking
commemoratio
μνημόσυνο εορτασμός επετείου
تَذْكار
Gedächtnisfeier ذكراFrequency
Etymology
In summary
First attested in 1384, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English commemoracioun, from Old French commemoration (French commémoration), from Latin commemorātiō. By surface analysis, commemorate + -ion
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