commemorate

IPA: kʌmˈɛmɝeɪt

(transitive) To honour the memory of someone or something with a ceremony or object.
(transitive) To serve as a memorial to someone or something.

Examples of "commemorate" in Sentences

They were not intended to "commemorate" the dead, as our dead are commemorated in modern churches and cemeteries.
Mr. Shaw's tale follows a disintegrating family that gathers at a beach house to "commemorate" the parents 'separation.
Columbus, and that his descendant the Duke of Veragua should in his title commemorate one of the most unfortunate of the Admiral's adventures.
Pictures, videos, and joyful phone calls commemorate every milestone: first tooth, mastering a two-wheeler, driver's license, graduation, job, marriage, and children of their own.
Prospector George Tannihill christened it in 1866 as a mining district, saying he chose the name to commemorate the fierce battle he and twenty-three settlers led by a Captain Pierson had heroically won against marauding Indians there in 1857.
It is strange, as Winsor points out, that in the name of this coast should be preserved the only territorial remembrance of Columbus, and that his descendant the Duke of Veragua should in his title commemorate one of the most unfortunate of the Admiral's adventures.