| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | commemorative |
| Synonyms: | canonizing, celebrative, commemoratory, consecrating, consecrative, dedicatory, deifying, enshrining, in tribute, memorializing, monumental, remembering |
| Antonyms: | abusive, dishonorable |
| Main Entry: | annal(s) |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | history, records |
| Synonyms: | account, archive, chronicle, journal, memorial, record, register |
| Main Entry: | commemorative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in honor of something |
| Synonyms: | celebratory, commemoratory, dedicatory, in memory, in remembrance, memorial, observing |
| Antonyms: | dishonoring, forgetful, neglectful, neglecting |
| Main Entry: | epitaph |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inscription on a gravestone |
| Synonyms: | commemoration, elegy, epigraph, eulogy, hic jacet, legend, memorial, monument, remembrance, requiescat in pace, sentiment |
| Notes: | an epitaph is an inscription on a tombstone or monument in memory of the person buried there, while an epithet is a defamatory or abusive word or phrase |
| Main Entry: | keepsake |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something precious |
| Synonyms: | emblem, favor, memento, memorial, relic, remembrance, reminder, souvenir, symbol, token, trophy |
| Main Entry: | landmark |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | historical or notable sight |
| Synonyms: | battleground, benchmark, bend, blaze, feature, fragment, guide, hill, mark, marker, memorial, milepost, milestone, monument, mountain, museum, promontory, remnant, ruins, souvenir, specimen, stone, survival, trace, tree, vantage point, vestige, waypost |
| Main Entry: | life |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | history, biography |
| Synonyms: | autobiography, bio, career, confession, curriculum vitae, journal, life story, memoir, memorial, story |
| Main Entry: | memento |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | souvenir |
| Synonyms: | keepsake, memorial, relic, remembrance, remembrancer, reminder, token, trace, trophy, vestige |
| Main Entry: | petition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appeal, plea |
| Synonyms: | address, application, entreaty, imploration, imprecation, invocation, memorial, prayer, request, round robin, solicitation, suit, supplication |