Synonyms of commemorating

Verb


1. commemorate, mark, observe, celebrate, keep

usage: mark by some ceremony or observation; "The citizens mark the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade"

2. commemorate, remember

usage: 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"; "Remember the dead of the First World War"

3. commemorate, memorialize, memorialise, immortalize, immortalise, record, remind

usage: be or provide a memorial to a person or an event; "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"; "We memorialized the Dead"

Adjective


1. commemorative, commemorating

usage: intended as a commemoration; "a commemorative plaque"

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