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Word of the day May 2
The Word of the Day for May 2 is:
commemorate • \kuh-MEH-muh-rayt\ • (verb) 1. to call to remembrance; 2a. to mark by some ceremony or observation; observe; 2b. to serve as a memorial of
A little more information about today’s word:
When you remember something, you are mindful of it. It's appropriate, therefore, that "commemorate" and other related memory-associated words (including "memorable," "memorial," "remember," and "memory" itself) come from the Latin root "memor," meaning "mindful." Some distant older relatives are Old English "gemimor" ("well-known"), Greek "mermera" ("care"), and Sanskrit "smarati" ("he remembers"). English speakers have been marking the memory of important events with "commemorate" since the late 16th century.
My sentence (using definition #2a):
The children in Mrs. Clark's sixth-grade class have made a memorial quilt to commemorate the events of September 11, 2001.
Based on Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, 10th Edition.
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