Dictionary definition · commemorate
verb
- 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"
- be or provide a memorial to a person or an event"This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"
Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).