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Commemoration

Meaning in history, with examples

nounCommon term

In history, commemoration means: An act or practice deliberately marking the memory of a past person, group or event.

In Turkish: anma, hatırlama töreni

How it is used

Commemoration may involve ceremonies, monuments or dates; ask what is remembered and who participates.

Example sentences

  1. The annual commemoration included the reading of workers' names.

    A repeated public act gives selected lives a place in memory.

  2. The dispute concerned whose losses the commemoration should acknowledge.

    The practice involves choices about inclusion and recognition.

Common collocations

  • public commemoration
  • annual commemoration
  • legacyThe lasting effects, ideas, institutions or problems that a person, period, empire or event leaves behind for later generations.
  • oral historyThe collection and study of people's spoken memories of the past, usually through recorded interviews, and the recordings that result.

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