Origin: Latin suffix -ate
Commemorate has 4 different meanings across 1 category:
celebrate by some ceremony or observation
"The citizens mark the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade"
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"
be or provide a memorial to a person or an event
"This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"
"We memorialized the Dead"
To honour the memory of someone or something with a ceremony or object.
"The town will hold a special service to commemorate the fallen soldiers on Memorial Day."