commemoration

Other forms of commemoration

plural

commemorations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about commemoration

What does commemoration mean?

commemoration means "a ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in commemoration?

commemoration has 5 syllables: com-mem-o-ra-tion. The stress falls on "ra". In IPA it is /kəˌmɛmɚˈeɪʃən/.

What is another word for commemoration?

Close synonyms include memorialization, memorialisation, memorial, remembrance. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is commemoration a common word?

commemoration is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with commemoration?

133 words rhyme with commemoration. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.