commemoration

See also: commémoration

English

Etymology

commemorate +‎ -ion, from Old French commemoration (French: commémoration), from Latin commemorationem, verb commemorare.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

commemoration (countable and uncountable, plural commemorations)

1. The act of commemorating; an observance or celebration to honor the memory of some person or event.
2. That which serves the purpose of commemorating; a memorial.
3. (Britain) The specification of individual saints in the prayers for the dead; the great festival of the Oxford academic year, usually taking place on the third Wednesday after Trinity Sunday.

Translations

act of commemorating

• Bulgarian: напомняне (bg) n (napomnjane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紀念 (zh), 纪念 (zh) (jìniàn)

• Dutch: herdenking (nl), gedachtenis (nl) f
• Finnish: muistaminen (fi), muistotilaisuus (fi)
• French: commémoration (fr)
• Galician: conmemoración (gl) f
• German: Gedenken (de) n
• Irish: cuimhneachán m
• Japanese: 記念 (ja) (きねん, kinen)

• Kurdish:

  Sorani: یاد‎ (ku) (yad)

• Maori: whakamaharatanga, whakamaumaharatanga
• Ngazidja Comorian: usherehi class 11
• Portuguese: comemoração (pt) f
• Russian: пра́зднование (ru) n (prázdnovanije) (celebration), поминове́ние (ru) n (pominovénije) (memorial)
• Scottish Gaelic: cuimhneachadh m, cuimhneachan m
• Spanish: conmemoración f
• Turkish: anma (tr)