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commemorative

commemorative adjective: serving to commemorate something.

Adjective

commemorative (not comparable)

  1. Serving to commemorate something.
    • a commemorative plaque
    • The centenary of Britain's most famous train has called for a commemorative and descriptive work and in this 40-page illustrated booklet the author has tried—with some success, to pour a quart into a pint pot.1962 October, “New Reading on Railways: The Flying Scotsman 1862-1962. By C. Hamilton Ellis. Allen & Unwin. 6s.”, in Modern Railways, unnumbered page

Noun

commemorative (plural commemoratives)

  1. An object made to commemorate a person, mark an event, etc.
  2. A postage stamp issued to commemorate, usually a person or event; also commonly applied to thematic (topical) stamp issues.
    • beautiful Pictorials, topicals, commemoratives, airmails. Introductory selection 40% discount. Ralph Rice, 15 Longlane, West Hartford 7, Conn.1956 December, “Classified Advertisements: Stamp collecting”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 106, number 6, page 57

commemorative meaning in Hindi, Malayalam and Kannada

commemorative in Hindi

commemorative, preserving memories
स्मारक smārak

commemorative in Malayalam

memorial, remembrance, celebratory
സ്മാരകമായ, സ്മരണ നിലനിർത്തുന്ന, ഓർമ്മിയ്ക്കായുള്ള, അനുസ്മരണാർത്ഥമുള്ള, സ്മരണാർത്ഥമായ, സ്മരണയ്ക്കുവേണ്ടിയുള്ള

commemorative in Kannada

ಸ್ಮಾರಕದ

Examples of commemorative in a sentence

  • Such is the case with the new commemorative (pictured) from Hutt River Province in Australia.
  • The afternoon was latening, but there was, I think, a quietly commemorative glow from the west.
  • Individual memories could be served by medals, commemorative plaques—such as the 'dead man's penny' issued in Britain—or honour scrolls.

All 11 example sentences with commemorative

Forms of commemorative

pluralcommemoratives

Origin of commemorative

First attested in 1612; borrowed from New Latin commemorātīvus, from commemorō. By surface analysis, commemorate + -ive, cognate with French commémoratif.

Words formed from commemorative

Questions about commemorative

What does commemorative mean?
Commemorative means serving to commemorate something.
What is commemorative in Hindi?
Commemorative in Hindi is स्मारक (smārak). See Commemorative meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is commemorative?
Commemorative can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near commemorative in the dictionary

  1. commemorateth
  2. commemorating
  3. commemoration
  4. commemorational
  5. commemorations
  6. commemorative
  7. commemoratively
  8. commemorativeness
  9. commemoratives
  10. commemorator
  11. commemorators

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: commemorative (page history and authors); स्मारक (Hindi) (page history and authors); commemorative (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); commemorative (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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