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commemorative

adjective as in in honor of something

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America sure does love its national commemorative months (PDF), especially health-related ones.

Temples could also serve funerary and commemorative functions.

Expect a boatload of commemorative coins, plates, T-shirts, and baby tchotchkes of all sorts to be sold.

It makes you wonder what the riflemen are going to do with their commemorative coins.

According to press reports, they received commemorative coins for their service.

There is also a tombstone in Folkestone churchyard curiously commemorative of this tax.

For many years the disgraceful commemorative procession was faithfully observed.

The following two chapters were prepared for special occasions commemorative of typical California life.

This was the case in a still greater degree in the triumphal and commemorative arches.

There the first object which met our sight was the little cairn, already mentioned, commemorative of Lieutenant Sholl.

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On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to commemorative, such as: celebratory, memorial, commemoratory, dedicatory, in memory, and in remembrance.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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