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commemorated

commemorated is the simple past and past participle of commemorate.

Meaning of commemorate

Verb

commemorate (third-person singular simple present commemorates, present participle commemorating, simple past and past participle commemorated)

  1. (transitive) To honour the memory of someone or something with a ceremony or object.
    • On November 11th we commemorate the fallen with a march.
    Synonyms:
    memorialize
  2. (transitive) To serve as a memorial to someone or something.
    • The cenotaph commemorates the fallen.

See all 3 meanings of commemorate

Words formed from commemorated

Questions about commemorated

What is commemorated the simple past and past participle of?
Commemorated is the simple past and past participle of commemorate.

Words near commemorated in the dictionary

  1. commemorabilia
  2. commemorable
  3. commemorand
  4. commemorands
  5. commemorate
  6. commemorated
  7. commemorates
  8. commemoratest
  9. commemorateth
  10. commemorating
  11. commemoration

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Adapted from Wiktionary: commemorated (page history and authors); commemorate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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