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COMMEMORATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A recognition of meritorious service
Synonyms:
commemoration; memorial; remembrance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("commemoration" is a kind of...):
credit; recognition (approval)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "commemoration"):
epitaph (a summary statement of commemoration for a dead person)
festschrift (a collection of writings published in honor of a scholar)
Derivation:
commemorate (be or provide a memorial to a person or an event)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something
Synonyms:
commemoration; memorialisation; memorialization
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("commemoration" is a kind of...):
ceremonial; ceremonial occasion; ceremony; observance (a formal event performed on a special occasion)
Derivation:
commemorate (call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony)
commemorate (celebrate by some ceremony or observation)
