commemoration

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Noun

commemoration

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. (UK) 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

• French: commémoration
• German: Gedenken
• Portuguese: comemoração
• Russian: пра́зднование
• Spanish: conmemoración

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