REMEMBRANCE

[noun] [U] [formal]A church service was held in remembrance of (= to honour) the victims.(formal) A remembrance is a memory of something that happened in the past.He has published his remembrances of the author in a memoir entitled 'Sylvia Plath: Last Encounters'.In Britain, Remembrance Day is November 11, and Remembrance Sunday is the closest Sunday to that date, when people honour those who were killed in the two World Wars.See study section: Public holidays and special days in the UK and the US