Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Worthy to be commemorated; memorable; noteworthy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Worthy to be commemorated.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Worthy of being
commemorated .
Etymologies
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Latin commemorabilis.
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Examples
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These few days right now are like a perfect storm of commemorable events.
Daily Campus RSS 2010
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Here was a cause so beautiful in its affirmation of freedom that it should have been served only by the bravery of dignified women and speeches lucent with reason and untremulously spoken, by things that would require no change of quality but only rearrangements to be instantly commemorable by art; and yet this Scotch woman, moving with that stiffness of the mental joints which nations which suffer from it call conscientiousness, had managed to turn
The Judge Rebecca West 1937
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