Usually means: Honoring memory through ritual or ceremony.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word commemoration:

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  1. commemoration: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. commemoration: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. commemoration: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. commemoration: Collins English Dictionary
  5. commemoration: Vocabulary.com
  6. Commemoration, commemoration: Wordnik
  7. commemoration: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. commemoration: Wiktionary
  9. commemoration: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. commemoration: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. commemoration: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Commemoration, commemoration: Dictionary.com
  13. commemoration: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Commemoration (liturgy), Commemoration (observance), Commemoration: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Commemoration: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. commemoration: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. commemoration: Rhymezone
  18. Commemoration: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. commemoration: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. commemoration: Free Dictionary
  21. commemoration: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. commemoration: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Commemoration (disambiguation), commemoration: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. commemoration: Encyclopedia

(Note: See commemorations as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of commemorating; an observance or celebration to honor the memory of some person or event.
noun:  That which serves the purpose of commemorating; a memorial.
noun:  (religion) The specification of individual saints in the prayers for the dead.
noun:  (UK) The great festival of the Oxford academic year, usually taking place on the third Wednesday after Trinity Sunday.

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