commemoration

See also: commémoration

English

Etymology

From commemorate +‎ -ion, from Old French commemoration (French commémoration), from Latin commemorātiōnem, verb commemorāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˌmɛməˈɹeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

commemoration (countable and uncountable, plural commemorations)

1. The act of commemorating; an observance or celebration to honor the memory of some person or event.
2. That which serves the purpose of commemorating; a memorial.
3. (religion) The specification of individual saints in the prayers for the dead.
4. (UK) The great festival of the Oxford academic year, usually taking place on the third Wednesday after Trinity Sunday.

Derived terms

• commemorational
• noncommemoration

Translations

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)