Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Commemorative.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Serving to preserve the memory of (persons or things).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Serving to commemorate; commemorative.

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  • adjective pertaining to commemoration

Etymologies

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commemorate +‎ -ory

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Examples

  • Prof. GRAYSON: There has been enormous security surrounding all of these commemoratory events.

    Mexico Celebrates Bicentennial 2010

  • Prof. GRAYSON: There has been enormous security surrounding all of these commemoratory events.

    Mexico Celebrates Bicentennial 2010

  • Prof. GRAYSON: There has been enormous security surrounding all of these commemoratory events.

    Mexico Celebrates Bicentennial 2010

  • When Barack Obama takes the stage on January 20th to be sworn in as our 44th President, one of the two men he has invited to offer commemoratory prayers will know what it means for a member of the clergy to have his speech silenced by oppressive government action.

    Tobias Barrington Wolff: The Voice That Will Inspire 2009

  • We went back to the hangar, where everyone had gathered in a single warm room with a woman who appeared to be the manager/secretary, an electric kettle, and a huge amount of parachutes, flight bags and other equipment, along with piles of paper and various commemoratory plaques on the wall.

    Esther Dyson: Flight School: Weightless at last! 2009

  • Egypt had furnished an obelisk for the centre, Delphi had given its commemoratory bronze of the victory of Platæa.

    The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) John [Editor] Rudd 1885

  • Jagan said he would not go back on his promise to undertake the yatra which was first announced on September 25, 2009, from the dais of the commemoratory meeting organized in

    The Times of India 2010

  • We went back to the hangar, where everyone had gathered in a single warm room with a woman who appeared to be the manager / secretary, an electric kettle, and a huge amount of parachutes, flight bags and other equipment, along with piles of paper and various commemoratory plaques on the wall.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

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