A ceremony, event, or action done to honor and remember an important person, event, or time in the past.
From Latin 'commemoratio,' combining 'com-' (together) and 'memorare' (to remember), literally meaning 'remembering together.' The word entered English in the 1300s.
Commemorations are one of humanity's oldest social technologies—even ancient cave paintings might be commemorations, and today every nation uses them to bind communities together around shared identity and values.
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