commemoration

See also: commémoration

English

From commemorate +‎ -ion, from Old French commemoration (French commémoration), from Latin commemorātiōnem, verb commemorāre.

commemoration (countable and uncountable, plural commemorations)

The act of commemorating; an observance or celebration to honor the memory of some person or event.
That which serves the purpose of commemorating; a memorial.
(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.

act of commemorating

Bulgarian: напомняне (bg) n (napomnjane)
Catalan: commemoració f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 紀念 (zh), 纪念 (zh) (jìniàn)
Dutch: herdenking (nl) f, gedachtenis (nl) f
Estonian: ^{(please verify)} mälestamine
Finnish: muistaminen (fi), muistotilaisuus (fi)
French: commémoration (fr) f
Galician: conmemoración (gl) f
German: Gedenken (de) n
Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} emlékünnep (hu), ^{(please verify)} megemlékezés (hu)
Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} peringatan (id)
Irish: cuimhneachán m

Japanese: 記念 (ja) (きねん, kinen)
Kurdish:
Sorani: یاد‎ (ku) (yad)
Maori: whakamaharatanga, whakamaumaharatanga
Ngazidja Comorian: usherehi class 11
Polish: ^{(please verify)} upamiętnienie (pl) n
Portuguese: comemoração (pt) f
Russian: пра́зднование (ru) n (prázdnovanije) (celebration), поминове́ние (ru) n (pominovénije) (memorial)
Scottish Gaelic: cuimhneachadh m, cuimhneachan m
Spanish: conmemoración f
Swahili: ^{(please verify)} adhimisho (sw)
Turkish: anma (tr)