noun
a ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something
• Syn: ↑commemoration, ↑memorialisation
• Derivationally related forms: ↑memorialise (for: ↑memorialisation), ↑memorialize, ↑commemorate (for: ↑commemoration)
• Hypernyms: ↑ceremony, ↑ceremonial, ↑ceremonial occasion, ↑observance
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\\ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ələ̇ˈzāshən, -ˌlīˈz-\ noun (-s) : the act or an instance of memorializing or the state of being memorialized
won … glamour for future memorialization — J.F.Dobie
Useful english dictionary. 2012.