From commemorate + -ion, from Old French commemoration (French commémoration), from Latin commemorātiōnem, verb commemorāre.
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commemoration (countable and uncountable, plural commemorations)
- The act of commemorating; an observance or celebration to honor the memory of some person or event.
- That which serves the purpose of commemorating; a memorial.
- (religion) The specification of individual saints in the prayers for the dead.
- (UK) The great festival of the Oxford academic year, usually taking place on the third Wednesday after Trinity Sunday.
act of commemorating
- Bulgarian: напомняне (bg) n (napomnjane)
- Catalan: commemoració f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 紀念 / 纪念 (zh) (jìniàn)
- Dutch: herdenking (nl) f, gedachtenis (nl) f
- Estonian: (please verify) mälestamine
- Finnish: muistaminen (fi), muistotilaisuus (fi)
- French: commémoration (fr) f
- Galician: conmemoración (gl) f
- German: Gedenken (de) n, Gedenkveranstaltung (de) f
- Hungarian: (please verify) emlékünnep (hu), (please verify) megemlékezés (hu)
- Indonesian: (please verify) peringatan (id)
- Irish: cuimhneachán m
- Italian: commemorazione (it) f, ricordo (it) m, memoria (it) f, rievocazione (it) f
- Japanese: 記念 (ja) (きねん, kinen)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: یاد (yad)
- Latin: commemorātiō f
- Maori: whakamaharatanga, whakamaumaharatanga
- Ngazidja Comorian: usherehi class 11
- Polish: upamiętnienie (pl) n
- Portuguese: comemoração (pt) f
- Russian: пра́зднование (ru) n (prázdnovanije) (celebration), поминове́ние (ru) n (pominovénije) (memorial)
- Scottish Gaelic: cuimhneachadh m, cuimhneachan m
- Spanish: conmemoración (es) f
- Swahili: (please verify) adhimisho (sw)
- Turkish: anma (tr)
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