verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
celebrate/commemorate/mark an event (= do something to show that you remember it )
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Fans observed a minute’s silence to commemorate the tragic event.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
anniversary
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Each commemorated a painful anniversary on the same day last week.
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And to commemorate their anniversary , the charity has opened a new office in Glasgow.
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The idea of making a special flower picture to commemorate a particular wedding anniversary works very well.
day
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It was a scream which one day they will commemorate with a plaque, and people will walk past it and remember.
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The day , commemorating the date Texas slaves first heard about the Emancipation Proclamation, is celebrated by blacks in Texas.
death
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Yet perhaps Thomas Hopkins and his wife took some solace in so commemorating the death of their eldest son.
event
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Nearly all Sir Walter's monuments of pride have disappeared, but enough remains to commemorate the great event .
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Erected in 1912, it commemorates a strange event in Zurich history.
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To commemorate the event in more permanent fashion, the Old Stopfordians' Association presented one hundred guineas to buy an organ.
plaque
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After the briefing our visitors were entertained to lunch and presented with a plaque to commemorate the visit.
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On the brown walls of corrugated metal a plaque commemorated it as the former home of James Fenimore Cooper.
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She officially unveiled a carved plaque to commemorate the centenary last year of the death of poet Richard Watson.
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The double plinth features a brass plaque commemorating the 1990 Restoration Project.
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The band presented the Company with a plaque commemorating their visit, together with a framed print displaying the regimental battle honours.
victory
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Cnut himself perhaps wanted to commemorate a great victory .
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He also instituted a festival called Delphinia to commemorate his victory .
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A lurid tattoo on his thigh commemorated his victory .
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Battle Abbey was founded by William to commemorate his victory and as a memorial to the fallen.
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The government did its best to rally public opinion behind the war effort by encouraging public celebrations to commemorate war victories .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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In the park, there is a plaque commemorating the town's 150th anniversary.
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The annual parade commemorates the soldiers who died in the two World Wars.
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The book will be published in October to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Morris's death.
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The Eid commemorates the prophet Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son at God's command.
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Vienna commemorated the 200th anniversary of Schubert's birth with a series of exhibitions and concerts.
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When a famous citizen died, he was commemorated by a statue or a plaque.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An imaginative programme of steam trains, listed below, was arranged to commemorate it.
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And Richard Hollins Murray set about creating cloisters to commemorate the links with the past.
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He also instituted a festival called Delphinia to commemorate his victory.
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Long Melford is one of the wool churches that commemorate the wealth of East Anglia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
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The shrines might have commemorated the creation of the palaces themselves.
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Throughout the years, celebrations have been held to commemorate Coronations, Jubilees, and Royal marriages.