commemoration
Everyone who takes part in the race will get a commemorative medal.
In 2009, he was honored with a commemorative stamp.
Presses are set to roll tonight for a special commemorative edition of the magazine.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Remembering, reminding and reminders
aide-mémoire
annal
awaken someone to something
be engraved on someone's memory/mindidiom
be etched on/in someone's memoryidiom
commit
echo
imprint
in commemoration of someone/something
indelible
jog someone's memoryidiom
keepsake
recall
remind someone of something/someone
reminder
reminisce
reminiscence
reminiscent
shade
stamp

Examples of commemorative

commemorative
Each winner receives a commemorative medallion and a $2,000 honorarium.
Politicians, bureaucrats, families, ex-servicemen, clerics, artists, builders, and contributors struggled to control the commemorative space.
Artefacts that do not have the qualities required for the performances of the commemorative ceremonies have much less chance of being preserved, promoted, and studied.
During the course of the year 2004, governments, committees and activists organized commemorative events, negotiated memorandums and discussed claims for or against reparations.
Rather, in diverse and subtle ways, commemorative practices appropriate already symbolically charged, culturally saturated landscapes.
The first wave of commemorative activities between 1916 and 1923 was characterized by the juxtaposition of the official version and the testimony of combatants.
To require such tangible returns on a substantial gift was hardly new, although a century earlier the return might well have been a commemorative sculpture.
The ceremonies and commemorative publications also reveal interesting ideas on purity.
A villa is a sentimental topography of small triumphs and commemorative meals.
Birds, butterflies, and flowers came to dominate definitives and development projects such as railways and dams reappeared on commemoratives.
These choices have left numerous books, images and commemorative arrangements, highly conventional in their religious tone.
Ancient states often appropriated symbolic or ritual landscapes through commemorative ceremonies and building operations.
The physical sites of commemorative rituals and pilgrimages have, quite understandably, also come under scrutiny in the wave of memory scholarship.
These commemorative practices then function as the realization and localization of these contested social memories.
Commemorative books are also published by government agencies, private companies, schools and individuals.
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