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commemorates

commemorates is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

Questions about commemorates

What is commemorates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Commemorates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of commemorate.

Words near commemorates in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: commemorates (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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